PRIMARY RESULTS 



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distribution of the grazing cost can be effected. On the 

 three farms under consideration, though widely separated, 

 it was found that the cost of grazing varied hardly at all. 



TABLE XXIV Analysts of the Cost cf Gracing- 



Labour 



Manures 



Manual 

 Horse... 

 Purchased 10.17/18- 



Food Residues 1916/17 



Food Residues (brought for4 unexhausted) 



f . (Unexhausted Cost of Seed and 



For temporary I ^ - b ht forwanl 



pastures [$ee<L_:___7 



Cent and Rates 



Estimated Cost of afarmath of hayland 



s d 



214 



5 d 



38 



251 



53 



s A 



Total Cost of Grajino;. 



252 12 6 



59 5 



Total Sheep Units carried 



Cost per Sheep Unit per annum . 



638 

 75. nd. 



1176 

 75.4! 



7s. id. 



4. ANIMAL PRODUCTS 

 (a) Meat 



The custom prevailing almost universally of selling fat 

 stock without any attempt being made to ascertain the 

 weight of the animals changing hands has made it impossible 

 to give figures illustrating the cost of production of beef, of 

 mutton, or of pork. No doubt the value of the weigh- 

 bridge to the parties concerned will come to be realized 

 by them as time goes by, and until its use becomes general 

 the means for controlling extravagance in meat production 

 will always be wanting. 



Given the weight of the finished product, the determina- 

 tion of cost should be a simple matter. The cost of the 

 stock, whether bought or bred, forms the starting-point of 

 the calculation ; and to this is added all labour for feeding 

 and attendance, all purchased foods at their purchase price, 

 all home-grown foods and grazing at the cost of production in 

 each case, and the due proportion of the overhead charges. 

 From the gross cost thus arrived at is deducted the value of 



