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Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

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106 CATTLE.<br />

stones, 3 lb.; tallow, 24 stones, 7 lb., (2208 lbs.) A steer, under four<br />

years old ;' four quarters, 106 stones ; tallow 19 stones, 7 lb., (1747 lbs.,)<br />

1814.—A steer, three years nine months old; four quarters, 101<br />

stones, tallow, 15 stones, (1624 lbs.) 1815.—A steer", three years<br />

eleven months old; four quarters, 112 stones 7 lb.; tallow, 28 stones,<br />

(1839 lbs.) A heifer, three years eight months old; four quarters,<br />

89 stones, (1226 lbs.) 1817.—A steer, three years two months old<br />

four quarters, 95 stones, 10 lb.; tallow, 17 stones, 10 lb. (1528 lbs.)<br />

1822.—An ox, four years and a half old ; four quarters, 135 stones ;<br />

tallow, 21 stones, (2184 lbs.) Own brother to the foregoing, three<br />

years and a half old ; four quarters, 133 stones ; tallow, 21 stones,<br />

(2170 lbs.) A steer, three years ten months old ; four quarters, 124<br />

stones; tallow, 17 stones, (2074 lbs.) A steer, three years eight<br />

months old; four quarters, 112 stones, (1568 lbs.); tallow not<br />

weighed.<br />

LORD ALTHORP'S COW.<br />

A steer, bred by Col. Cook, of Doncaster, fed on potatoes and<br />

straw, was slaughtered when two years and twenty-two days old ;<br />

his four quarters weighed 72 stones, (1008 lbs.)<br />

Mr. John Rennie (of Phantassie,) fed, in 1823, a steer, from eigh-<br />

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