COMPUTING VALUES OF ANIMALS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8331, 6 April 1889, Page 5

COMPUTING VALUES OF ANIMALS.

' Mr G. H. Meire, of Eyton-on-Sevem, hay invented a most \ajjenious contrivance for computing the valued of animals sold' by live weight. It is called the " Computer," and confiialfl of a! kind of rule, nitli a slide in the middle of it. Above the slide is a goaje"of weights, ffom -Jcwf tp }(3cwt, with Bubdivis oils for stones of Wh, and half' that weight, representing live weights. On the slide itself, where it joins the upper scale, ra'ues aro marked from £§ to £32, with' subdivisions for s.os'. and gs. * Qu the lowejf'e'dgp of the slide is a "percentage aoale, from EjO to 100. The lower jiart of the rule, where if joins Ihe percentage scale, is graduated with a scale of prices per lb, from 3d, to a I°. in pence, farthings, and half-farthings. On the sliding percentage scale an arrow is marked, 'and, bj settiug'this Opposite to t'be price per lb. f which. V» animal is to he so(d by live e^hf, \he total value is found ou the aecpD_4 spftle from the top, just below th,e live whight of the animal, marked OP the top soale. To get the value ot a beast sold at a certain price per lb of caroaee weight, in accordance with an agreed percentage of live weight, the percentage has only to be set opposite to the price per lb, and the value of the animal is then at once found opposite to the live weight. Having foui d the yajue Cjf one animal by either n}ef,hcd, the respective values of any number o other animals of different weights, but sold at'the same price, may be read dff at once.