80 MANAGEMENT OF PHHASANTS IN CONFINEMENT. 
wheat, 8s. 8d.; bread, 5s. 113d.; sheep’s paunches (two hundred), £1 5s.; a 
horse, 10s.; a cow, 5s.; a sheep, 5s. The last three for producing maggots. ‘Total, 
£17 12s. 94d. No rabbits were used. With this supply of food, at the cost of 
a little more than 1s. a head, not only were 97 per cent. of the birds reared, but. 
I think they were as fine as possible.” 
-The cost of labour, protection, &c., varies so much in different localities and 
under different circumstances that it is impracticable to draw up even a rough 
average of general application. 
