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Pig Feeding and Pork Production. [july. 



of the stock on the farm to be weighed at the beginning and 

 end of the financial year. In addition, any stock bought during 

 the year is weighed at the time of purchase, and any stock sold 

 is again weighed at the time of its sale. Under this system it 

 is possible to ascertain the total live weight of pork, beef or 

 mutton produced on the farm each year, and, if necessary, to 

 calculate the rate of increase of each individual animal. 

 The weight of pigs produced during the year was : — 



cwt. qv. 



Weight of 92 pigs sold during the 3'ear . . ..160 3 

 61 pigs on the farm on 30th March, 191 9, 



weighed on that date . . . . . . 96 o 



256 3 



73 pigs originally in stock, weighed on ist April, 



1918 55 2 



Produced during the year . . . . . . 201 cwt. i qr. 



Time sheets and detailed records are kept of the daily labour 

 of each man, horse or tractor on the farm, so that at the end of 

 each week it is possible to apportion to each crop or kind of 

 stock its proper share of the labour bill. 



The w^eekly or fortnightly wages sheet is so designed as to 

 include not only the cash wages actually paid, but also the 

 monetary equivalent of that part of the wages paid in kind. 



In addition, the Stock Book is balanced monthly, so 

 that accurate information may be readily available as to the 

 number of the various heads of stocks on the farms at any 

 particular time. 



Cost of Labour.— From the Daily Labour Sheets, Wage 

 Book and Stock Book, information was collected from which it 

 was shown that 254 days' man labour at a cost of £62 15s. izd. 

 and 15 days' w^ork for a horse at a cost of £2 19s. ^d. had been 

 utilised in attendance on the pigs, the total labour bill for which 

 amounted during the year to £65 15s. jd. 



The cost of attendance per pig per week varied from 2\d, 

 per head in July to 6\d. per head in March, with an average of 

 just under ^d. per head per week throughout the whole year. 

 This cost, however, only holds good when on the average one 

 man is fully employed in looking after 124 pigs, and receives 

 an average daily wage of 4s. ii^d., and when the average cost 

 of horse labour is 4s. per day. The average daily cost of 

 human kbour in attendance on the pigs, viz., 4s. ii^d. has been 

 arrived at by dividing the total cost of Ihe labour, viz., 

 £62 15s. iTd., by the total number of days* labour expended. 



