For instance, the bullocks bought in will average 13 or 14 pounds.

A ton of linseed-cake and some meal are given to each beast before it is sent to market, costing from 10 to 12 pounds.

When sold, the bullocks average 24 or 25 pounds.

Thus the cake and the meal equal the whole difference between the buying and selling price, so that all the roots, chaff, and attendance go entirely to the account of manure.

These three items, together with the value of pasturage for the months the cattle may lie in the fields, from October to May inclusive, could hardly amount to less than 5 pounds per beast, which, for 170, would be 850 pounds.