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GTtti. In the aeoond period from the lt October 

 to the 31st January, the cot of production ha* been 

 alnio*t exactly %. gallon, on your figure.- 1 lm\.- 

 not worked it out in detail. 



6796. I hare work.il it one Hi n on the IMU.U ol 

 prx of thu year compared with last year, d<> 

 think tho owl of production will be greater than 3. r 1 

 I am afraid that the cost will be much greater for 

 the coming winter than it wins last winter. The root 

 irop in Cheshire -n many platvs will not bo a third 

 of what it was lat year;' and we tunl that cakes and 

 meal* are up quiu i'"> per ton. with the exception of 

 bean Hour. I might have pointed out that in tln- 

 seoood quotation that 1 have made out, at one j 

 I wm* forced to buy beau flour, a thine I did noi 

 want to touch, which cost JL"J7 a ton. No one cjin 

 produce milk on bean flour at that price; but feeding 

 stuffs ! \-ry scarce about Christmas. With the 

 MOD ol In-all tlour. I tliink other cakes and meals 

 .IK- up .lU.iit to a ton to what they were last \M 



9o that the cost of production will U> great. -r : 

 Ye; and, of course, the nay crop is not more than 

 two- thirds. 



6798. Then from the 1st February to the 3rd April. 

 the cost of production decreases somewhat, about .'('I 

 a gallon, roughly. 1 think:- The milk went up some- 

 what. The cows began to calve about the latter end 

 of January. 



6799. So that vou had a bigger yield per cow .- 

 Yes. 



6800. Otherwise the cost of the' actual feeding 

 would be as great in that period? Yes. 



'>nl .Wi. Batchelor: Would you look at your state- 

 ment for the 1st May to the 30th September, 1918 

 You start from May 1st to May ll'th 1 ton of hay 

 hat would l>e 1917 hay, I presume? Yes. 



6802. Then : 1 ton of straw 3, and 1 ton of roots 

 at 50s. ; but the figure extended is 10. Is that I 

 tons of roots? Yes, it is a mistake; it should have 

 been 4 tons. 



6803. What value of machinery and dairy utensil*, 

 altogether, have you in your premises? 170. 



6804. Have you a milking machine:- N<- 



6805. What is the largest item making up then 

 tl70:- I have an engine pulper, mcal-ake crusher, 

 chop cutter, refrigerator, milking cans, and about It) 

 hums, milking cans, etc. 



6806. In each of the two detailed statement-, am 

 I right in understa nding that tho item called " Depro- 



i. ,ti. .n loss on rows," 106 in the one case, and 

 80 7s. lOd. in the other are actual losses sustained :- 

 -. that is ao. 



6807. In the second of these periods, you have 

 already told us what the price for hay and -n.iu 

 WM. What are you putting the prices of roots at? 

 50. 



6808. Was that u market price? In our district 

 they were selling swedes when they were pulling them 

 up, at 3 a ton, put on rail. 



6809. Right up to that period? Yes, right up to 

 ( 'hrUtmas. 



6809A. You have pretty heavy cake bills? Yes. 

 88H>. Would theso le" at the controlled pri. 

 V.. 



6811. What particular kind of cake did vim 

 Was it liuseed cake? In the summer time when 1 

 cn get it. I nnually use undecortii ated cotton lake 

 Indian moal. When I lannot yet these I use 

 or inenl. 



.our cows pretty heavily:' The 

 ilxnit 7 Dm. of cake and meal |x-r day. 

 I i- that, uli.it i|iiantity of milk do you . \ 

 |xi t |n i day two gallons in the summer period and 

 one. and a half gallons in the u inter- It would 

 average about a gallon and a half in the uin: 



1 r 7 ll.s .-i ated f.-odill^ ^ 



you think you get full \alue for your 



ti-d foodstuffs 'if that is all the milk tli^y 



I think you know HX well .,- I ! that .. 



i the' foodstuffs have not hail tin- \alue in them 



uwd to have 



with _MHI. Have you any idea if y.u 

 hail put in (mine-glow n fodder nn hiding hay 



root* at what it would cost you to produce them 

 what .-If,- t that would h.-nc on tin. amount o! 

 l"p, or profit? I have n..l worked it out on thai 



1 i, lost February when the Coin- 



n.i-i-.n was asking for evidence, tin;, gave ]>ci mis-ion 



to the i.inniM.s to charge tiien j line t<. 



:ln> .s.iini- |.i i. rs they could .sell it at. and 1 tliink it 

 ill the only tan way. 



0817. So that is the basis you have gone 



081J*. .!/. Athby: Are these yields stated in your 

 . \ idem, iii-chiel in throe periods actually refolded 

 \ields ,-ithci from cows or receipts from nnlkr They 

 are the actual yields from the receipts for milk. 



68H). Vou charge your hay, straw and roots at 

 market price*:- -Yo. 



0820. If you wore .selling them as you are selling 



them to your cow >' ai-eoniit. would thero bo some pi ..lit 



M cultivation of the hay, strawy and roote? 



I lino would have been u very good pix.lit ..n the roots. 



I had a tremendoudy heavy crop., 



6821. You show, roughly, a loss of 3oO on these 

 eows, which is very closely 2 10s. an acre on the 

 farm. As you have made a considerable pro' 

 your roots and hay, that loss on the farm is IK 

 10s., but aonie lower figure? I wanted to point out 

 this, that we have been to a lot of expense and 

 trouble ill producing this milk last winter, when we 

 might have- taken it far more ea.siiy, and .sold our 

 produce without trouble. That is what I have tried 

 to show. Does that answer your question? 



6822. Is your ordinary business dairying business:- 

 - Yes; it is rather a mixed farm, but chiefly dairy- 

 ing. 



6823. But on the 141 acres, where you have 35 cows. 

 much the biggest proportion of the business must be 

 the dairy business? Yes; that is due to tho AVai 

 Executive. 



6824. Did they make you keep the cows? Tin y 

 made me plough this land. It is like this: I have 

 one of the best dairymen that ever had a pair ol 

 boots on; and I know if I lessened his supply lie 

 would not get another dairy, and it i.s my dir 

 him to stand by him. 



6825. But you would have been able to stand by 

 him without meeting so much loss yourself, had it 

 not been for the expense with the cows at the end 

 of last summer? I admit that the cows served me 

 rather badly at the back end of the year; but these 

 are difficulties that we are often faced with. 



6826. But the depreciation ou your cows last year 

 was much more than the average and ordinary 

 depreciation? If you take a dairy farm for a 

 number of years, you may get one year that is 

 perhaps three times as bad as the other three or four 

 years. They never run in a line. 



6827. This was the year which was three or four 

 times as bad as the other years? It was very bad. 



6828. So that your average depreciation is about 

 one-third or one-fourth of this? I am not going to 

 say that. 



6829. This is quite an extraordinary account, which 

 you could uot apply generally to the farms in 

 Cheshire, even last year, and you could not apply 

 it as regards the yield of milk on your own farm 

 for a number of years, because of the peculiar con- 

 ditions in the herd at the end of last summer? I 

 -aid before. I admitted my cows had not done quite 

 as ell as they iiii^ht have done at the hack of the 

 xear: but I do know of other dairy farms where they 

 have even done worse than mine. 



6830. To i-onie back to the question of loss, have 

 you any account in any farm uhatev. n say 

 a bank pass-book, which would show this actual loss 

 ..t t:.Vir I do not tlv that the bank pass 

 iMMik would have a deal to do with the dairy part 

 of the business, becau-e I have the other part of the 

 larm. I have not t \\ o si-parate accounts. 



Then you do not know that \ou have lost this 

 MI the whole of the farm:- I have not !o-t the 

 .,n the hole of the farm. 



a matter of tact, the farming 

 biisini-NH is much U-tter than is shown on this 

 mi-lit for the dairy? Yes, I agree with you. 



I1H:U Mi. <;:!>,:, Is this a typical Cheshire dairy 

 larm:- Yes. in my district it is. 



..re a great many more like it? Yes, 

 there are. 



