260 THE STOCKFEEDER'S COMPANION 



for the winter month as well as the average loss are 

 balanced by the manurial residue, while others allow 

 id. to 2d. per head per week for the shepherd's wages, 

 including removal of hurdles, troughs, carting hay, etc. 

 For losses by deaths, etc., fd. to id. per head per week 

 is charged. These figures place the value of the 

 manurial residue at from 2d. to 3d. per sheep per week, 

 which is approximately 30 per cent, of the total value 

 put on the food. 



XXXIV. CARCASS COMPETITIONS FOR SHEEP. 



The preceding table (pp. 258-9) gives the result of 

 the carcass competitions at Smithfield Show in 1913. 

 As column I was given in hundredweights, quarters, 

 and pounds, and column 2 in Smithfield stones, it was 

 considered advisable to calculate them both to pounds, 

 so that the relation between live weight and dead 

 weight may be all the more easily followed. Column 3 

 was then calculated to show the proportion of carcass to 

 live weight. 



The breed of each sheep is given, but, unfortunately, 

 the exact age is not available. There are, no doubt, 

 practical difficulties in recording the individual ages 

 of sheep which are kept in large flocks, especially when 

 they are intended to be fed off as early as possible 

 for mutton. 



XXXV. FEEDING OF PIGS. 



The pig ought to occupy a more prominent position 

 on many farms than it does at present. No other farm 

 animal will give so large a return for the food consumed 

 as the pig, hence it has been called the " most economical 



