A FARM MANAGEMENT SUEVEY IN BROOKS CO., GA. 



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46 cents per hundred pounds. The average cost was 54 cents. This 

 does. not include the marketing of the meat, but it does include the 

 hauling of the ice, salt, etc., to the farm. It represents the cost of 

 the meat cured ready to sell. 



Table XXIII. — Cost of killing and curing swine (Brooks County, Ga.). 



Average 

 of all 

 farms. 



Farms having each specified number of 

 pounds of swine (live weight) killed 

 per farm. . 



Less 



than 



5,000 



pounds. 



5,000 to 



7,000 

 pounds. 



7,000 to 



10,000 



pounds. 



10,000 

 pounds 

 and over. 



Number of farms 



Average per farm: 



Live weight killed (pounds) 



Number of hogs killed 



Average weight per hog killed (pounds) 



Man labor (days) 



Mule labor (days) 



Cost of man labor 



Cost of mule labor 



Equipment cost 



Building charge a 



Salt 



Borax 



Ice 



Total cost *. . . 



Cost per 100 pounds of live weight killed. •_ . . 



50 



8,438 



47. 

 179 



14 



2,764 

 21 

 132 



10.1 

 .40 



10 



5,446 



33.7 



161 



13.5 

 .82 



12 



8,266 

 48 

 172 



14 



16,395 

 83 

 193 



20.3 

 1.4 



27.1 

 3.5 



$13. 58 



.43 



.03 



3.96 



4.22 



.50 



1.22 



$15. 20 



.73 



.09 



5.60 



6.32 



.57 



1.08 



$26. 70 

 1.07 



.14 

 7.71 

 9.60 



.27 

 3.11 



$36. 65 

 3.08 

 .14 

 13.04 

 16.15 

 .40 

 6.40 



23.95 

 0.87 



29.58 

 0.54 



48.60 

 0.59 



75.86 

 0.46 



a Cold storage and smokehouses. 



Approximately half the total costs consist of man labor. It is the 

 usual practice to pay with scraps of the cheaper cuts of meats, the 

 extra labor needed for killing. It should be borne in mind that a 

 considerable part of the labor charge is the cost of supervision by the 

 farmer, and that the slaughtering is done in January, at times when 

 there is not much pressure of other work. 



