British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume I - Page 283

CHAPTER VIII.

The following items are included in the cost of production (i) Share of working animal.

(ii) Food for working animal.

(iii) Seeds.

(iv) Fertilizers and manure.

(v) Hired labour for harvesting. (vi) Transport of crop to village. (vii) Threshing.

(viii) Depreciation of implements.

(ix) Depreciation on marketing boxes and bags.

5. Gross income from stock and poultry.

(a) Cattle.

2 selected baladi cattle will give 800 litres milk per annum each if they are not worked and are given fodder in addition to the natural and stubble grazing available. Yield of cows milk = 1,600 litres at 11 mils = £P.17.600.

(b) Goats.

2 Damascus goats will give 400 litres of milk per annum each. Yield of goats milk=800 litres at 11 mils per litre=£P.8.800. (c) Poultry.

20 baladi hens will lay 1,600 eggs valued at 2 mils each = £P.3.200.

(d) Bees.

10 beehives will give an average of 15 kgs. of honey per hive valued at 50 mils per kg.=£P.7.500.

(e) Sale of surplus stock.

The annual gross income from the sale of surplus cattle and goats and the increases in value of animals is estimated at £P.5 per annum.

(fJ Total gross income from stock and poultry. £P.

Cattle 17.600
Goats 8.800
Poultry 8.200
Bees 7.500
Sales 5.000
£P. 42.100
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