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As a summary of the foregoing statements, your Committee find
that, for the year ending 1878, the expenses for the several works were
as follows : —
Slopping £1,892 7 5
Dusting 1,600 0 0
Watering 728 19 9
Drawing material 523 13 7
£4,745 0 9
For the year, to Michaelmas, 1879, the cost for the same
works has been—
Slopping £2,470 1 8
Dusting 1,036 11 7
Watering 339 11 10
Drawing materials 494 12 10
4,340 17 11
Which shews a balance in favor of the present system of £404 2 10
Your Committee cannot but feel that this is a most satisfactory
result, as having regard to the many difficulties which attended the
preliminary stages of the work and to an exceptionally bad season, in
addition to the many drawbacks which almost invariably attend the
first start in a new undertaking, it might not have been at all a matter
of wonder if the result had worked out unfavorably when compared
with former years.