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and many other incidental matters, may profitably
be entertained as questions tending to economy,
through employing the Vestry workmen, instead of
by Contract or Day Work.
It may be of some future use to append to this
Report the data upon which the price of the horse
keep is calculated.
The result has been arrived at by reference to the
returns of provender delivered at the depot, and the
bills as paid by the Vestry. As before stated, in
initiating a new system, necessarily there are many
contingencies to be provided for, and causes arise
which to some extent, have the effect of increasing
the pro rata costs as below given, nevertheless the
prices quoted may be accepted as sufficiently correct
for eeneral calculation.
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est of Horse
ep, &c.
CONSUMPTION PER HORSE PER WEEK
Oats 3½ Bushels
Hay and Clover 2 ¾Trusses
Straw 1½ Truss
Memo.—The cost of the above has been, allowing for contingencies, on
an average of 17 weeks, say 24s. per horse, which is the basis of the foregoing
calculations.
On a comparison of the two systems, viz., by