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viz. , 254. The resulting figure is low, mainly because most of the 

 labour in attendance on the pigs was performed by women. 

 If, as is probable, there has been an increase of 50 per cent, in 

 the price of daily labour in respect of the year 1919-20, and the 

 attendant still does the same amount of work, the cost of 

 attendance per pig per week on that particular farm for the 

 current year will probably amount to 6d. per head per week 

 instead of 4d., as during the period under notice. 



The estimated cost of attendance per pig per week during 

 November, 1919, worked out in respect of six farms, was as 

 follows : — 



On Fami A at ^d. per head per week. 

 B „ „ 

 C „ 6d. 



E 6id. „ 

 F jd. 



Cost of Food. — Little difficulty has been experienced in check- 

 ing the amount and cost of the purchased foods consumed by 

 the various kinds of stock. 



Rations are drawn up for all the stock, alterations are noted 

 as they are made, and the amounts of the various foodstuffs 

 consumed are apportioned monthly to the stock consuming 

 them. The actual amounts consumed are checked with the 

 estimated amounts according to the rations drawn up. This 

 is done by making an inventory each month of the various 

 foods still left unconsumed on the farm, and deducting the 

 amount left over at the end of the month from the quantity 

 in stock at the beginning, plus the amount purchased during the 

 month. 



The actual consumption never quite agrees, nor, in fact, 

 can it be expected to agree, with the estimated consumption ; 

 but the one ensures the accuracy of the actual amount consumed, 

 and the other enables one with as great a degree of accuracy 

 as possible to apportion the amounts so consumed among the 

 different kinds of stock. The purchased foods so consumed are 

 charged to the stock at their actual cost price, including the 

 cost of carting to the farm. 



The home-grown foods, on the other hand, have all been 

 charged at prices corresponding to their actual cost of pro- 

 duction. These prices have in all cases been worked out as 

 carefully as practicable. 



Thus, the cost of growing 7f acres of potatoes on newly- 

 ploughed grass land was found to be £235 os. 4d. ; and the 

 whole cost of growing ii| acres of potatoes on the farm 



