MANAGEMENT AND PROFIT OF FOWLS. 337 
are fed twice a day, and have meat once a week in winter. In the year 
named he kept fifteen hens and one cock; sold 125 dozens eggs for 
$38 75, used 28 dozens, worth $7, and raised 28 chickens, worth $7 80; 
total, $53 55. They cost him, during the time, $18 25, leaving a clear 
profit of $35 30, or about $2 20 each. : 
Mrs. Delia Devinny, of Denver, Colorado, kept an account with 140 
hens and 14 cocks, from September 1, 1868, to September 1, 1869, and, 
including in her account the value of stock on hand at the commence- 
ment of each year, it foots up thus: Debtor, $357 03; creditor, $686 92; 
profit, $329 89. She lost 500 early chickens by cold, damp weather; 
and, as she set many hens, she sold only 9,444 eggs. The profit in this 
case, notwithstanding the large loss of chickens, is $2 14 for each of the 
154 fowls. In 1868, when more attention was paid to producing eges 
than raising chickens, these hens produced 132 eggs each.’ The stock 
was a mixture of various breeds. 
A gentleman, of Fredonia, New York, kept an average of twenty-six 
fowls during 1869, at a clear profit of $46 68, about $1 80 each. His 
stock was mixed Dorking and Brahma, and had the run of a small barn 
and one-eighth of an acre of ground. They were fed wheat, wheat 
screenings, and corn-meal, with meal pudding once a week, and had 
plenty of water. 
The San Francisco Scientific Press, of December. 24, 1870, states that 
an industrious laborer took up some Government land near Marysville, 
California, built a cabin, and purchased chickens and turkeys of the 
value of $100 for a stock to start with. His fowls nearly picked up 
their living, and at the end of eighteen months (covering the second 
spring and summer of his occupation) he had sold poultry and eges to 
the amount of $1,500 above the small cost of keeping, and had on hand 
stock five times the value and amount of the original. 
Mr. Edwin Jones, of Otsego county, New York, published in the Rural 
New Yorker his account with poultry for the year 1869. His fowls were 
a mixed breed of Brahma, Hamburg, Seabright, and native. He fed 
oats, buckwheat, and wheat screenings. His account is presented in 
the following table, which furnishes a simple form that may be service- 
able to others: 
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