A FARM MANAGEMENT SUEVEY IN BROOKS CO., GA. 
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46 cents per hundred pounds. The average cost was 54 cents. This 
does not include the marketing of the meat, but it does include the 
hauling of the ice, salt, etc., to the farm. It represents the cost of 
the meat cured ready to sell. 
Table XXIII. — Cost of killing and curing sivine (Brooks County, Ga.). 
Average 
of all 
farms. 
Farms having each specified number of 
pounds of swine (live weight) killed 
per farm. 
Less 
than 
5,000 
pounds. 
5,000 to 
7,000 
pounds. 
7,000 to 
10,000 
pounds. 
10,000 
pounds 
and over. 
50 
8,438 
47.2 
179 
18.01 
1.57 
14 
2,764 
21 
132 
10.1 
.40 
10 
5,446 
33.7 
161 
13.5 
.82 
12 
8,266 
48 
172 
20.3 
1.4 
14 
Average per farm: 
16,395 
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Average weight per hog killed (pounds) 
193 
27.1 
3.5 
$23. 51 
1.39 
.10 
7.73 
9.28 
.43 
3.10 
$13. 58 
.43 
.03 
3.96 
4.22 
.50 
1.22 
$15. 20 
.73 
.09 
5.60 
6.32 
.57 
1.08 
$26. 70 
1.07 
.14 
7.71 
9.60 
.27 
3.11 
$36. 65 
3.08 
Equipment cost 
.14 
13.04 
Salt 
16.15 
.40 
Ice 
6.40 
Total cost • 
45.54 
0.54 
23.95 
0.87 
29.58 
0.54 
48.60 
0.59 
75.86 
0.46 
a Cold storage and smokehouses. 
Approximately half the total costs consist of man labor. It is the 
usual practice to pay with scraps of the cheaper cuts of meats, the 
extra labor needed for killing. It should be borne in mind that a 
considerable part of the labor charge is the cost of supervision by the 
farmer, and that the slaughtering is done in January, at times when 
there is not much pressure of other work. 
