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Pig Feeding and Pork Production. 



[JULY, 



amounted to £355 6s. gd., corresponding to £30 4s. lod. per 

 acre. The total yield was iii tons, and the cost of production 

 in respect of the iif acres, therefore, works out at £3 4s. per 

 ton. Of the iii tons produced, 76 tons were sold, and 5 tons 

 were retained for seed ; the remaining 30 tons represent what 

 was fed to the pigs, and the unavoidable waste. The whole 

 30 tons were charged to the pigs at the cost price of £96 (i.e., 

 £3 4s. per ton). 



Just over ii| acres were under swedes, and lifted at approxi- 

 mately 21 tons to the acre. Rather less than a third of these 

 were eaten by the sheep ; a few went to the pigs and horses, and 

 the remainder were consumed in fairly even proportions by 

 the cows and other stock. 



From this information, distribution of the total cost of grow- 

 ing the crop, viz., £233 ys. ^d., was made in the following 

 proportions : — £73 were charged respectively to the sheep, 

 cows and bullocks, heifers and calves ; £7 to horses ; and 

 £7 ys. 4d. to pigs. 



Tv.o and three-quarter acres were under mangolds, and the 

 cost of growing the crop amounted to £58 17s. ^d. Of this 

 amount £15 15s. was charged separately to the sheep, to the 

 cows, and to the stock, £5 6s. to the horses, and £6 6s. ^d, to 

 the pigs. 



Four acres of peas were grown at a total cost of £38, but, 

 owing to the prolonged rains of August and September, the 

 crop was left out for at least six weeks after cutting, and conse- 

 quently was harvested in extremely bad condition. No part 

 of the crop was fit for sale, and it w^as, therefore, fed to the cows, 

 bullocks, and pigs ; £6 was considered the proportionate share 

 of the total cost|which should be charged to the pip^- 



Thirty-nine and a half acres of oats were grown, yielding a 

 crop of 315 qr., at a cost of £546 i8s. 6d., of which sum 

 £478 ICS. lod. was allocated to the grain and £68 ys. 6d. to 

 the straw. The cost per qr. of the oats harvested works out 

 at £1 ICS. 6d., and the 51 tons of oat straw obtained were 

 grown at a cost of £1 5s. a ton. Thirteen qr. or approximately 

 2 tons of oats were consumed by the pigs, and were charged to 

 them at £20. 



As the farm in question was approximately half arable and 

 half grass, half of the salary of the farm manager, the wages 

 of the farm mechanic, and of the various incidental expenses 

 which could not otherwise be allocated, were charged to the 

 arable land, and the remaining half charged to the stock in 



