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get extra money for calves and pigs reared, for cattle 

 fattened or sold, for pigs killed, and for the delicate 

 duty when, in the capacity of nurses, they sit up at night 

 during the calving of cows. For marketing, too, there 

 is occasionally extra payment. 



To add to the rather long and somewhat exhaustive 

 list of " extras " obtained by cattlemen, there is a 

 percentage allowed them when exhibits are made at 

 agricultural shows, the percentage being on the prize 

 money obtained. This, no doubt, is very good policy, 

 for it encourages the men to do their best to get the 

 animals into " prize " condition, and they thus come into 

 line with the master in the desire for success. Finally, 

 Sunday work is very properly looked upon as an extra 

 for cattlemen and horsemen : the allowance being 

 from a shilling to two shillings per week in addition to 

 the ordinary weekly wages. But perhaps in the maj ority 

 of cases the general responsibilities and Sunday work 

 of carters or waggoners and cattlemen are recom- 

 pensed by the higher rates of weekly wages, than their 

 superior duties normally command. 



Of extra allowances in " kind " to carters and cattle- 

 men, etc. we shall specially refer in a subsequent chapter, 

 after an interim discussion of the " Special Extras," as 

 we may call them, obtained during harvest. 



