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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Table 4. — Eevenue made from sale of eggs for hatching and stock for breeding pur- 

 poses. Pens 34 and 35. 



Value of breeding stock, 2 cockerels, 46 pullets . . $48 00 



Value of food consumed" 46 28 



Cost of rearing 100 chickens at age of 4 months 



(Sept. 1) 14 64 



Cost of 50 shipping egg boxes, at 8 cents each. . 4 00 



Cost of 35 coops (shipping birds), at 25 cents each 8 Y5 



$121 67 



Value of eggs sold during the year $33 00 



Value of eggs sold for breeding 49 00 



Value of 35 cockerels sold for breeding, at $1. . 35 00 



Value of 10 pullets sold for breeding, at $1. . . . 10 00 

 Value of 18 chickens sold for eating, 45 lbs., at 



13 cents 6 85 



Value of cockerel on hand, at $1 1 00 



Value of 30 pullets on hand, at U 30 00 



Value of breeding stock 48 00 



211 85 



Lost during the year, 3 birds $3 00 



Net profit. $87 18 



or $1.89i by each hen. 



INCUBATION. 



IIATCriTNG RESULTS FROM INCUBATORS AND HENS. CHICKENS HATCHED FROM HENS KEPT IN 



WARMED AND COLD HOUSES. 



On the dates named in the following tables, two incubators — as described — were 

 set in operation in the same building. Some interesting results are shown, among 

 which will be noted the difference in the germ strength of eggs laid by fowls which 

 were kept in houses without any artificial heat, but with scratching shed attachment, 

 and those from hens in partially warmed compartments, but with no such opportunity 

 for exercise or such abundance of fresh air. 



