140
(b) Gross receipts per annum :
Rs. As, Ps.
1. Price of ghee, produced out of milk; 5*
maunds at 4* seers of ghee for every
maund of milk; valued at Re. 1-0-0
per seer...........216 0 0
2. Price of dung, 8 cartloads at 8 annas per
cartload........... 400
3. Value of the young one born..... 10 0 0
Total . 230 0 0
Thus the net profit in the case of a milking she-buffalo
is Rs. 90 per annum. It is necessary to explain why
in calculating the receipts we have converted milk into
ghee and taken its price as though the income from milk
was the same as from ghee. The reason is this. The
majority of farmers of this village sell ghee for which there
is a market in Bulsar. It is not possible to send milk
to Bulsar, which is at a distance of nine miles, because
the facilities of conveyance are inadequate.
We may note that when dry, a she-buffalo is usually
taken out to graze during the day. She is given grass
and straw at night. In the rainy season she is allowed
to graze green grass. No concentrated food is given
to her. The cost of maintaining her when dry may be
taken at Rs. 12 per annum. The only income received
from her during this period is manure which may be
reckoned at Rs. 2. This leaves a net loss of Rs. 10
when the she-buffalo is dry. Yet she is kept by the
farmer because this loss is much more than compensated
for, in the future, when she gives birth to a calf, by the
value of the calf and the milk.
(iii) Balance-sheet jar a cow in milk.
N. B.—Average period of lactation equals 12 months.