MANAGEMENT AND PROFIT OF FOWLS. 339 
To 5 hssiee bought, at 75 cents.........- gees a Meee. ike te al seeeeae $3 75 
RMR Rita Wore, esc cada net da davecd sire doaden aeee! | OUD 
To 22 chickens hou og AIR RS ENCE MOREA: Sa 4 ees 2 Ea 5 00 
To 1 dozen Brahma BeOS (GRURS) a acnat nang aoela ge aia ae eens 5 00 
GPE I, oS o's chad gan saree Sasa ucanss naecenaedaes 117 50 . 
— $171 25 
Cr. 
By »Sodevens ergs sold, at 40 conte... 222.2652 ise ones cnn wees $34 40 
" By 50 dozens eggs sold, at 36 cents.--.-...---.-.-- +--+ s-0------ --- 18 00 
By 229 dozens eres sold, at 30 cents....-.---.... .-2.-----22----- ---- 68 70 
By 97 dozens eggs sold and USGd Wat CaN CRBS se tece cc oes Cc.as nie voce 24 25 
By 8 cocks sold, WHEL Syisch TOQUE Se Cee tescussececcaeacs cues 8 00 
Memes Hore Gold at; 75, COULS. <4 2 dos y ess cag Wdeasds sau deer becssean 9 00 
By 80 hens and pullets SOLA, Age COM. as 5 esas cue cnandd~ sear eons 60 00 
SRO EIE? TOW IS SOIC once cca cenwoiecen cuss e-cu wcee cate uceemmeneeecl, 1d. 00 
EMI IAIUES 20008 0 dein ek oe an ta os leh cee a4 dese catnnn neem sites 40 00 
275 85 
PEER Re a ahi Fee Nonsense OS Acs 2 ais) nok. miniteioe. selec ements 104 60 
The fowls in this case were mostly Brahmas, a few being crosses of 
that breed and Black Spanish. 
Mr. 8. S. Cook, of Franklin, Massachusetts, presents in the New Eng- 
Pat Farmer his account with twenty-five hens kept during 1869, as 
ollows: 
Dr. 
‘January 1, 1869.—To value of 25 hens. ..-..-.--.--0e- Bees BAS e's Aee $25 00 
= ~ to food for hens and chickens. ..........--.: s--=- - 80 90 
$105 90 
Cr. 
December 26, 1869.— By: 25 large hens... . 2. 2.0. nee en pone cece eee $25 00 
By 15 small, hens, or pullets:_2. 22.2.2. .,.. <6 15 00 
By 155 dozens eggs, at 35 cents....-.-..-.-----.- 54 25 
By dressed poultry soldie. 2.229.272 eos ase 11i 50 
205 7a 
eget. ec 5ab cedend syat ed ee 99°85 
The profit from each fowl was $3 992. Brahmas and Leghoras were 
kept. No account is made in these repor ts of the care of fowls on the 
debit side, nor of the value of manure or feathers on the credit side. 
In Filint’s “Agriculture of Massachusetts” for, 1869 several accounts 
with. poultry are given by citizens of that State, which are briefly as 
follows: George W. Chadwick kept eight Brahma and Hamburg hens 
and one cock one year. They vies in eggs and’ chickens the value 
of $42 90, and their feed cost $24; leaving a profit of $18 99, or $2 10 
each. The profit on fourteen hens and cocks, a cross of White Leghorn 
and eye breeds, kept by 8. B. Bird from March 20 to September 20, 
was $62 he profit on twenty-four hens, mostly White Leghorns, 
kept by Toate Jones from January 1 to September 1, 1868, was $88 92, 
or $3 70 each. 
The Mirror and Farmer records that fourteen Red Leghorn hens kept 
by Mr. Eben Fellows, of Franklin, New Hampshire, laid 2,311 eggs from 
March 23, 1869, to March 23, 1870, which sold for $53 92. Six broods 
of chickens raised in the year paid the cost of keeping the poultry. 
Mr. Benjamin V. Brown, of Concord, Massachusetts, sends to the De- 
_ partment his account with poultry duri ing 1869. His hens were a cross 
between the Brahma and White Dorking. Nothing js charged for care, 
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