338 . AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
The eggs were sold at an average price of 223 cents per dozen, and 
the profit from’each fowl was about $2 24. Mr. Jones estimates that 
the benefit conferred by his hens in eating foul seeds, weeds, &e., with 
the value of their manure, moré than equalled the cost of keeping, _ 
"+ Mr. Joseph Getchell, of Wells, Maine, kept twenty-two young hens and 
one cock of the Black Spanish breed, and two hen-turkeys, during the 
year 1868, and his receipts and expenses were as iollows: 2983 dozens 
eggs, Which brought $30 60, and twenty-six young turkeys, which sold 
for $55; total receipts, $135 60. Cost of feed, $35 60; leaving a profit 
of $100. ‘Lhe expenses are not so given as to determine the proportion 
incurred by the hens; but supposing it to have been $1 each, making 
$23, the profit from their eggs would be $57 60, or $2 50 each. The 
hens were ied with corn, buckwheat, barley, and oats, three times 
each day, and allowed to go atlarge, In cold weather they had warm 
water, which is deemed important by Mr. Getchell. The turkeys, when 
the young were a few weeks old, were allowed to obtain their own food 
in the fields, until fattening time, when they were fed at a cost of $6, 
which amount is included in the foregoing statement. 
The account of a lad in Yonkers, New York, extending from May, 
1869, to. May, 1870, shows his success with seven hens and one cock. 
He raised thirteen chickens, worth $10; secured 667 eggs, besides those 
set, worth $22—making $32. Thecost of keeping was $15; leaving $17 
profit, or $2 12 each. 
The account current of Mr, John Bufiington, of Salem, Massachusetts, 
with poultry during the year ending January 1, 1870, is as follows: 
Stock, January 1, 1869, cost of food, gc. 
38 fowls, al 75 cents, $28 50; 13 ducks, at 75 cente, $9 75.-.-....---- $38 25 
4 guinea fowls, $2; 20 chickens, $6 --.--. -----+---+ --20 e+ 2-+ +2 8 00 
$46 25 
42 bushels of corn, $46 60; 29 bushels of oats, $24 25--...----..----- - 70 85 
24 bushels of meal, $25 95; 24 bushels of corn, $25 95-...----------- 51 90 
36 bushels of shorts, ‘)ii 45; 2 bushels of barley, $3.---------------- 17 45 
921 pounds of scrap, 3 66; squashes, $2 50..--.------ Weg sel ame 6 16 
Cayenne pepper, 50 cents ; sulphur, 74 cents; rat exterminator, 25 cents 1 49 
343 dozens hens’ eggs set, at 39 cents per dozen.....-------+--+------ 13°52 
183 dozens ducks’ eggs set, at 49 cents per dozen.-.--..---- edso ig 9 15 
Other expenses, including labor on coop, dressing poultry, (Gcecace sees 23 bf 
194 09 
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Stock, January 1, 1870, sales, ge. 
32 hens, at 75 cents, $24; 12 ducks, 75 cents, $9-----.------------- $33 00 
118 chicks sold, $71 24; 144 ducks, $96 43----.-..--- Le Pheu 167 67 
171; dozen hens’ eggs, $67 45; 157% dozen ducks’ eggs, 37 40--------- 74 90 
28 barrels of manure, $29 75; feathers, $1 ----.------------------- 30 75 
62-2; dozens hens’ eggs used in family, 89 cents-.---.--------- esac 24 28 
Sys dozens ducks’ eggs used in family, 49 cents...--.--------------- 2 73 
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Mr. S. Malter, of Batavia, New York, reports that he kept sixteen hens 
and one cock from April, 1869, to January, 1870, from which he real- 
ized a profit of $30 52, or $1 80 each. The Rural New Yorker gives 
the poultry account of a correspondent for the year 1869, as follows: — 
0; 
'To 55 hens and 11 cocks, at 50. cents. .... --.-.--0-1 2-222 ----- eee $33 00 
To 2eocks bought, at $1...--- eee cence e ene e cone eens cee nee rene eens 2 00 
