250 
On the Feeding of Stock. 
Per Cmtra. 
£. s. d. 
Produce — 
1857—600 lambs (at about 29s. 6d.) .. .. 884 0 0 
AVool, 61 tods 144 0 0 
Total 1028 0 0 
Cost j .. 736 5 0 
Profit 291 15 0 
£. s. d. 
1858— 650 lambs, 60 tods of wool .. .. 970 0 0 
Cost ,, .. 736 5 0 
Profit 233 15 0 
This statement (as well as the details of management and the 
arguments which it sums up) is generally so correct that on 
most points it may be adopted as the basis of our calculations ; 
but one item seems either undercharged on the one side or over- 
estimated on the other. It is calculated that the crones — now 
6 shear sheep — after bearing 3 or 4 lambs on the farm, are to 
be sold fat at the same price at which they were originally 
bought, towards the end of the summer quarter. During this 
quarter (which may be taken to occupy the time from the 
middle of May to the middle of August), only 10s. per score, 
or 6d. per head, is allowed for both ewe and lamb (or lambs). Of 
this sum nearly Ad. would be required for the keep of the lamb, 
leaving 2c?. for that of the ewe : quite enough to keep it in a 
store condition, but not to prepare it for the butcher. Between 
one-third and one-fourth of this flock of 500 ewes is drafted 
annually ; so that, making due allowance for deaths, fully 6 
score crones will have to be fatted and an extra cost incurred, 
which in mi/ case would not fall short of the following item : — 
£. s. d. 
For cost of extra keep of 6 score crones, for 13 
weeks, at 10s. per score 39 0 0 
Mr. Bond's pastures, however, may enable him to realise this 
result more economically than I could do.* 
The charge for the spring (quarter (from the middle of 
February to the middle of May) of 15s., or dd. per head per 
week, seems ample. 
Two verifications .of this are appended, applying to crops of 
turnips on very weak soils. 
* It may also be observed that Mr. Bond makes no allowance for expenses 
of washing, dressing, shearing, and sales, for which in my case 20/. will be 
charged. 
