80 MANAGEMENT OF PHEASANTS IN CONFINEMENT. 



wheat, 8s. 8d. ; bread, 5s. ll^d. ; 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. 9^d. No rabbits were used. With this supply of food, at the cost of 

 a little more than Is. a head, not only were 97 per cent, of the birds reared, but 

 I thiak 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. 



