If so, then 28 per bullock would be a reasonable load.
At 1930 prices, bullock carts worked out much cheaper than motor lorries, both in terms of initial and recurring costs.
The bullocks and the officers' private stock would not have been considered part of the normal ships' provisions.
On the other hand, the price elasticities for bullocks are negative.
The land of bullock-carts, or steam trains, is beginning to be seen as a land of automobiles, or jet planes.
Faeces without parasite eggs were collected from noninfected bullocks housed at the same facility.
Even if the harvest was complete, preparation of the land for sowing the wheat could take up to three weeks using bullock-drawn implements.
Today, matters are very different since the cattle are butchered on the spot, loaded onto bullock carts and sent off to market.