150 LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS LETTER 



This account of course includes grain or meal 

 supplied to the farm hens when sitting on the pheasant 

 eggs, or when with their chicks in the rearing field. 

 The corn laid down for the stock of hen and cock 

 pheasants about 200 left on the beat for breeding 

 is also charged up to Feb. 1, 1892. 



196 stones Indian meal, at Is. Id. . ., 



264 stones barley meal, at Is. Id. . . I 30 11 



104 stones oatmeal (sittings), at Is. Id. .' 



92 sacks Indian corn, at 17s. . . . \ 



12 sacks barleycorn, at 17s. . . . ' 

 8 sacks wheat, at 18s. 8d. . . . 794 



52 stones rice, at Is. Qd 3 18 



32 stone canary seed, at 2s. Qd. . . .400 



9,540 eggs, at 18 for Is 26 10 



100 rabbits, at Is 500 



Meat . 1 3 10 



Farmyard rakings and seeds . . .250 



169 5 2 



NOTES ON THE ABOVE 



Set under farm hens . . 2,800 pheasant eggs 



Turned into the woods . 1,600 birds 



Killed 1,300 



Lost (vermin and strayed) . 100 ,, 

 Left as a breeding stock . 200 



1,300 pheasants killed at an expense in food of 

 1691. 5s. 2<i. gives the cost of each bird as 2s. 



1,300 pheasants valued at a low selling price, or 

 2s. Sd. each, equals 173L 6s. Sd., so that it will be 

 seen the pheasants just paid for their food, with some 

 41. to spare, and besides this, a good stock of hen 



