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THE Commercial and Agricultural Magazine.

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No. XVII.] DECEMBER,- 1800.[VoL. lI.

ON THE EXHIBITION OF FAT CATTLE AT SMITHFIELD. i HE Plate, in the front of our Magazine, is intended to repreſent the fat’ ox“ of Mr. Weſtcar, of Burv-Hill, near Ayleſbury, Buckinghamſhire, which gained the firſt, or the moſt höónóurable prize, at the ſnow of fat câttle at the great market at Sinithfeld, which is annually held on the week preceding Chriſtmas, This x, beautifully proportioned, and, we believe, the beſt ever exhibited at any imarket, OU NE FUE Herefordſhire breed, was purchaſed, lean, riſit:g five years old, having worked nearly three years, Dy Mf. Weéſtcar at Here- ford fair, at the end of the year 1798; from which time he had been kept in a fatting ſtate, and for the aſt twelvemonths had been entirely fall fed wich hay, corn, and oil-cake.

He was ſold to Mr. Chapman of Fleet-Market, together with two others, and was eſteemed to be worth 140l, When Killed, bis looſe fat weighed 36 ſtone, and the whole cárcaſe and“fat, although his bones were very ſmall, the enormous weight of 280 ſtone.:

One firloin and rump weighed— 30 ſtone.

Six of his fore ribs—— 2X do. Buttock—_— 16 do. Thé leg——- 20 pounds, The head—— 28 do. The tongue——— I4do. The ſhin of beef— I4 do. Thé heart—— 97 do. The frſt rump fſte2k— 14 do. KIGA ESRA

For the Commercial and Agricultural Magazine. MR. EDITOR,; London, Dec. 22d,'1800.

IN compliance with the polite requeſt of your correſpondent

T. Weſton, and with a view to the amuſemznt of your readers who reſide in parts remote from London, I ſend you a ſhort ſketch of what I ſaw and heard at the ſhow of fat cattle at the great market at Smithfield.

This year’s exhibition was the ſecond‘in order, but was the firſt in excellence. It exceeded that of laſt year both in the number of the candidates, and in their general fatneß and form, It was indeed.ſuch, as, in my opinion, reflected no mall honour

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