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Article SOME ACCOUNT OF MR. BAKEWELL, OF DISHLEY. ← Page 2 of 3 →
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Some Account Of Mr. Bakewell, Of Dishley.
In this place it maybe worth while to insert the following statement of the prices given , at an auction , for stock bred from Mr . BAKEWEXL ' . The- sale to which we advert was that of Mr . FOWLER , of Rollright , in Oxfordshire . After his death , one article of his five stock , the horned cattle , sold for a value equal to that of the fee-simple of his farm ! Fifteen liead alone of bulls and cows sold for 2 , 4 60 ) . or at the rate of 16 4 I . each !
Among Mr . BAKEWELL ' cimosities are a rump and a surloin of a cow , more than 20 years old when killed , which , is wonderfully fat . It is now more than four inches thick in fat , and would , without doubt , have been considerably thicker had she been killed at an earlier age . He had also two p ieces of bacon , one from a hog with very large bone , and the other from one with very small bone . The latter was eleven inches through to the boneand the farmer not half so deep .
, It was his opinion , that the only way to improve the breed of cattle is to keep up the price ; for if the price is low , people send any kind of cows , and if the produce fails the bull is blamed . ; but if the price is high , they are particular , and send none but the very best , which is the only method to improve the breed . The same argument , he holds good with all other kinds of cattle .
says , To shew the difference of judgment in respect to the value of cattle , Mr . BAKEWELL observed , that some years since lie used to attend Loughborough Tup-Market , where he had a ram which he let for TWENTY-FIVE GUINEAS . ' Soon after the agreement , another farmer " wanted to purchase this ram , and Mr . B AKEWELL ( in joke ) asked
him twenty-five shillings for it . The farmer offered eighteen , and at last they par'ed for two shillings!—A heifer sold at Mr . PEARCE ' sale , near Northampton , for EIGHTY GUINEAS ; and , a few days after , - . as she was driven through Leicester , a party of farmers standing together valued her at about ei g ht pounds . Mr . BAKEWELL had let a bull to a gentleman for fifty guineas for the seasonThe gentleman ding in the interimand the executors
. y , iiot knowing any thing of this transaction , sold the bull by auction with the rest of the cattle . When the season was over , Mr . BAKEWELL sent for his bull , and , after investigating the matter , found , to his great surprize , that the bull bad been sold to a butcher for about eight pounds , who had killed it , and sold it for two-pence-halfpenuy poundMr . BAKEWELLin course lied to the executors for
per . , , app the value , which was fifty guineas for the season ( the stipulated agreement ) , and 2 CO guineas for the bull . The executors ' refused payment , thinking that , as the bull was sold by public auction , before a great number of farmers , and many of them thought to be men of judgment , for only eight pounds , it was an imposition . Mr . BAKEWELL was therefore obliged to bring an action for the amount ; and people with this
appearing as witne-ses on the trial , who were acquainted breed , ancl making oath that Mr . B . had not overvalued his bull , a verdict was given in Mr . B . ' s favour to the full amount , with costs of suit . * Mr . B AKEWELL , at the time of his death , was verging on his 70 th , year . In person he was tall , broad set , and , in his latter years , rather inclined to corpulency . His countenance bespoke intelligence , acti-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Some Account Of Mr. Bakewell, Of Dishley.
In this place it maybe worth while to insert the following statement of the prices given , at an auction , for stock bred from Mr . BAKEWEXL ' . The- sale to which we advert was that of Mr . FOWLER , of Rollright , in Oxfordshire . After his death , one article of his five stock , the horned cattle , sold for a value equal to that of the fee-simple of his farm ! Fifteen liead alone of bulls and cows sold for 2 , 4 60 ) . or at the rate of 16 4 I . each !
Among Mr . BAKEWELL ' cimosities are a rump and a surloin of a cow , more than 20 years old when killed , which , is wonderfully fat . It is now more than four inches thick in fat , and would , without doubt , have been considerably thicker had she been killed at an earlier age . He had also two p ieces of bacon , one from a hog with very large bone , and the other from one with very small bone . The latter was eleven inches through to the boneand the farmer not half so deep .
, It was his opinion , that the only way to improve the breed of cattle is to keep up the price ; for if the price is low , people send any kind of cows , and if the produce fails the bull is blamed . ; but if the price is high , they are particular , and send none but the very best , which is the only method to improve the breed . The same argument , he holds good with all other kinds of cattle .
says , To shew the difference of judgment in respect to the value of cattle , Mr . BAKEWELL observed , that some years since lie used to attend Loughborough Tup-Market , where he had a ram which he let for TWENTY-FIVE GUINEAS . ' Soon after the agreement , another farmer " wanted to purchase this ram , and Mr . B AKEWELL ( in joke ) asked
him twenty-five shillings for it . The farmer offered eighteen , and at last they par'ed for two shillings!—A heifer sold at Mr . PEARCE ' sale , near Northampton , for EIGHTY GUINEAS ; and , a few days after , - . as she was driven through Leicester , a party of farmers standing together valued her at about ei g ht pounds . Mr . BAKEWELL had let a bull to a gentleman for fifty guineas for the seasonThe gentleman ding in the interimand the executors
. y , iiot knowing any thing of this transaction , sold the bull by auction with the rest of the cattle . When the season was over , Mr . BAKEWELL sent for his bull , and , after investigating the matter , found , to his great surprize , that the bull bad been sold to a butcher for about eight pounds , who had killed it , and sold it for two-pence-halfpenuy poundMr . BAKEWELLin course lied to the executors for
per . , , app the value , which was fifty guineas for the season ( the stipulated agreement ) , and 2 CO guineas for the bull . The executors ' refused payment , thinking that , as the bull was sold by public auction , before a great number of farmers , and many of them thought to be men of judgment , for only eight pounds , it was an imposition . Mr . BAKEWELL was therefore obliged to bring an action for the amount ; and people with this
appearing as witne-ses on the trial , who were acquainted breed , ancl making oath that Mr . B . had not overvalued his bull , a verdict was given in Mr . B . ' s favour to the full amount , with costs of suit . * Mr . B AKEWELL , at the time of his death , was verging on his 70 th , year . In person he was tall , broad set , and , in his latter years , rather inclined to corpulency . His countenance bespoke intelligence , acti-