336 ‘AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
ending January 1, 1870. The total debit was $79 44, and the credits, 
for eggs, poultry sold and eaten, and increase of fowls, amount to 
$257 86; leaving a net gain of $178 42—about $5 40 for each fowl. The 
breeds were Brahma and Chittagong. They were allowed their liberty 
during the year, were well fed with corn and waste from the kitchen, 
and had broken bones, oyster shells, &c. Mr. Sawyer says: “ There is 
more in the attention than the breed, although the latter is important. 
Kindness, gentleness, and familiarity will repay when bestowed on ani- 
mals, and it is especially true when shown to fowls.” 
A gentleman, of Concord, Massachusetts, reports the profits on his 
hens from October 1, 1868, to October 1, 1569. He has fifty-four hens 
and three cocks; the cost of keeping was $148 64, and the income from 
eggs, hens and chickens sold, and increase of stock at the end of the 
year, was $240 77; leaving a balance of $92 13, or about $1 70 per hen. 
These fowls, mostly Brahma, were confined ail the time in a close yard, 
but were well supplied with a variety of food. 
T. G. L., of Taunton, Massachusetts, publishes an itemized account of 
his poultry for 1869. His stock consisted of 56 hens, 4 cocks, 10 hen- 
turkeys and 1 cock, 15 geese, and 25 pigeons, at the beginning of the 
year worth $132 75. At the end the increased value of the stock on 
hand was $20 75. The cost of feed and of 17 hens, 2 cocks, 24 chickens, 
10 turkeys, and some eggs bought, amounted to $467 75. He sold 2,641 
pounds of poultry, 115 pounds of feathers, 364$ dozens of eggs, 10 
Brahmas and 11 Bantams raised for fancy poultrymen, and received 
$58 50 from the county for damage to his poultry by dogs; the total 
receipts, with the increased value of stock on hand at the end of the 
year, being $1,146 07. Thirty dozens of eggs used in the house and fifty 
bushels of manure do not enter into the credit side of the account, nor 
half the sour milk from one cow and fifteen bushels of small potatoes 
‘into the debit side. The fowls were of Asiatic breeds, the turkeys 
bronze, and the geese Bremen. 
Mr. F. W. Babcock, during 1869, kept twenty hens of Brahma, Black 
Spanish, and common breeds. They produced 1,751 eggs, as follows: 
In January, 75; February, 155; March, 210; April, 252; May, 159; 
June, 218; July, 95; August, 265; September, 188; October, 91; Novem- 
ber, 43; December, none. The eggs, at 25 cents per dozen, were worth 
$36 50. Forty pullets were also raised, the value of which is not stated. 
The income from the hens of C. M., of Jefferson County, New York, 
is stated substantially as follows in the Rural New Yorker: In 1867 he 
kept twelve hens, and from January to October their products amounted 
to $50 48. Irom November, 1867, to November, 1868, eleven hens were 
kept, except in the last two months, during which there were’ only 
nine, and the income from sales was $38 34. No account is given of 
eggs or poultry used in the family, nor of cost of feed, &c. The house 
in which these hens were kept was 7 by 8 feet, having a yard 10 by 12. 
Free range was given also after 4 o’clock each afternoon during most 
of the summer. Mr. M. states that a hen will eat 90 pounds of grain 
and 5 pounds of meat, with worms, grass, milk, water, &c. at pleasure, 
during the year; and he seems to be fully convinced of the profitable- 
ness of poultry-keeping. His hens were cross breeds from various kinds, 
and his sales were made in Watertown, New York. It will be seen that 
his proceeds were large; in the first year over $4 per hen, and in the 
last, $3 83 each. 
Mr. J. H. Severson, of Knowersville, New York, has kept fifteen to sev- 
enteen hens, of common breeds, during seven years, and gives the account 
of 1869 as an example of the whole time. His fowls have free range, 
