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Statement of Receipts and Expenditure, State Farm, Levin, for the Year ending 31st March, 1897.

Goods in Hand, 31st March, 1897, Expenditure on which is included in the Year 1896-97. £ s. a. Potatoes .. .. .. .. .. 151 7 7 Onions .. .. .. .. 55 0 0 Oaten and other hay .. .. .. 30 0 0 Sundries (including boiler, milk-cans, galvanised wire, buckets, aerator, Babcock tester, &c.) .. 33 8 0 £269 15 7 Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, not given ; printing (1,250 copies), £1 ss.

By Authority : John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.—lB97.

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Expenditure. Ordinary Expenditure. Eeceipts and Assets. Ordinary Receipts. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. ly Purchase of pigs .. .. 99 6 9 Purchase of cattle .. 566 1 4 Contract milking account, 12,820 gallons at Jd. .. 26 14 2 Seed-oats, seed-potatoes, barley, &g. .. .. 26 15 8 Sundry accounts, including ironmongery, stores, blacksmithing, saddlery, &c. .. 628 7 9 Freight on pork, cattle, milkcans, barley, potatoes, oats, &c. .. .. .. 38 8 8 Salary (Manager) .. .. 148 0 8 Wages of men .. .. 828 0 1 To Sales of cattle, horses, and pigs, &c. .. .. 681 0 9 Milk sold Farmers' Dairy Union .. .. .. 145 3 0 Cash sales, milk and butter 17 3 11 Sales of vegetables .. 109 13 0 Sundry cash sales.. .. 32 12 4 Pares and rents refunded .. 89 4 10 Sales of firewood, posts, &c. 202 13 3 Boyalty on timber (consolidated revenue) .. 635 12 6 1,913 3 7 Capital Account. 2,361 15 1 Capital Account. iy Ironwork, timber, &c, for shed and milkhouse, milkcans, brands, Babcock tester, aerators .. .. 33 8 11 Shelter-trees, fruit-trees, and plants .. .. .. 151 18 10 Buildings taken over, and improvements on same .. 229 12 10 Building four new cottages.. 565 13 4 Wages of men (permanent improvements on farm) .. 880 11 0 1,861 4 11 4,223 0 0 Credit balance .. .. 8 0 4 To Permanent improvements effected during the year — Alterations to existing cottages .. .. .. 160 0 0 Four new cottages .. 565 13 4 Piggery, boiler-house, &a. .. 70 0 0 Fowlhouses and yards .. 25 0 0 Cowshed and milkhouse, calf shed and stockyard .. 250 0 0 Additions to orchard (5 acres), and planting same, laying - out and planting plantations with ash, elm, walnut, &o. .. .. 190 0 0 Sinking five wells, and troughs, pumps, &c, for same .. .. 55 9 0 Forming and metalling new road .. .. .. 48 5 0 Bushfelling, 60 acres at £1 8s. 84 0 0 Grass-seed and sowing same 65 0 0 Fencing .. .. .. 156 15 11 Logging-up .. .. 120 17 6 Stock purchased during 1896-97, and in hand 31st March, 1897— 131 head of cattle at £315s. 491 5 0 79 pigs at 9s. .. .. 35 11 0 2,317 16 9 £4,231 0 4 £4,231 0 4