CATTLE BY WEIGHT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2885, 10 January 1891, Page 4

CATTLE BY WEIGHT.

:\ll-;-;.-us M.vniOXAMi, FKA.siii;, ami Co., wiio are always in the van in any matters relating to their trade, have this week erected in their DnnfermlineMsrtn, large v.-cigli-bridge for weighing the cattle a3 they enter the Kale ring. The weighing jilatform ia situated in one corner of the ling, tho diut recording the weights of the cattlu bciug pbced overhead at au auyle, Ko that it ir.ay bu seen the tiio .luetioncer and all the buyers present The cage or pier h of strong wrought iron, and will hold s.i\ tu eight cattle. Tho weigh-briclge haa been mauufaeturcd

■".■lit erected by the well-known inakur.i, Messrs Henry l-'oolcy and Son, xUbiou Works, Glasgow anil Liverpool, and is tho third this tirni h-ivo erected for IJtisrs Mncdounld, i'raocr, an J Co., tho other two being in their i'crtli and Glasgow marts. Tlic Pertli weighbridge, which was erected a fortnight ago, ia the cattlo weigii-brMan in tiio United Kingdom, having a weighing platform 10 foot l>y t) feot, with an indicating dial live feet diameter. It may bo interesting to lioio tin- rtdvaufo made in the weighing of c-attli' duriii" iccent years. \\'i> huli<'V« the lirxt Weighbridge put down at an auction mart in Scotland wan at tho mart of McM.ira Jolin Swan and Sons, Edinburg, in ISS'J, followed the next year by one at the Aberdeen Cattle and V.irm "Produce Association's Mart, Aberdeen ; the next was erected by Mo-wrs Mac Donald, draper and (Jo. in tiioir (Hasgow innrt in iSS-f. Since then a large number of auctioneers have adopted them, including , Messrs Oliver and Son, Edinburgh; Thomas Corson, Stirling; Robert Dewar, Jamos and John Youna, Ayr; John Duncan, Aberdeen; the Klgin Auction Mart Compiny, LiuiitPtl, Elgin ; and the Laurence l;irU Auction Wart Company, Laurence-kirk.-SwtchPu per.