cake, as per granary book 245 16 9 (c)
Cutting 25 tons of chaff, at 6s. 7 13 0 (d)
Grinding 96 qrs. 6 bshls. of corn, at 9d. 3 12 6
Attendance, at 19s. 10d. per week 23 16 0 (e)
Horse labor, at 6s. per week 7 4 0
Coal, 3s. 2d. per week 3 16 0 (f)
Use of 21 troughs, at 3d. each per month 1 11 6 (g)
Use of 180 hurdles, at 1d. each per month 4 10 0
1-1/2 cwt. of rock salt 0 4 6
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L840 6 6
Remarks.
(a) Total cost of keeping 352 lambs for 24 weeks, L298 4s. 3d.
(b) Cost per head, 16s. 11d.
(c) Cost, food only, 14s. 11d.
(d) Value of the manure, reckoned at one-fifth the cost of the
corn and cake, L49 3s. 4d.
(e) Cost of the lambs, per head, L2 7s. 8d.
(f) Value of manure, per head, 2s. 10d.
(g) No charge made for the straw-chaff eaten on the land.
The tegs would probably have been sold at a profit in April;
they were, however, put on grass and clover, and were fattened
in the summer.
_September 29th._--352 lambs in the parks, on a little cotton-cake
and some oats, until November 4th, when they were folded on a wheat
stubble. Gave them 5 bushels of meal daily, mixed with 468 lb. of
straw chaff. Cost 3-1/2d. each per week for meal.
_December 20th._--Increased the food to 6-1/2 bushels of meal and
1 bushel of oil-cake.
_December 18th._--
lb.
2-3/4 bushels of maize crushed and boiled 143
4-1/2 bushels of mixed meal 200
1 bushel of oil-cake 50
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Cost 5-1/2d. per week for corn and cake; chaff, 2-1/4 lb. each,
between these and the ewes, the lambs eating rather less than
2 lb. each.
Eight pounds of rock-salt licked up by the 352 lambs per week.
_January 23rd._--The food was increased to 7-1/2 bushels of meal,
2 bushels of oil-cake, and 2 bushels of rape-cake.
Mixture
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