Excerpt from A New Set of Tables, for Computing the Weight of Cattle by Measurement: The Quantity of Hay in Ricks of Different Forms; The Value of Land, The Measurement of Drains and Dunghills; Also a Few Other Practical Tables; With Rules, Examples, and Directions for Using the Tables Rule.-take the girth close behind the fore-shoulders, and the length from the top Of the shoulders, in a straight line to the extremity Of the buttocks, both in inches; multiply the square of the girth 6. The girth multiplied by itself) by the length, and divide the product by 7844, the quotient is the weight in Imperial stones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.