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(e) Market or confine all male fowls as soon as the 

 hatching season is over. 



6. If each of 100 hens averages 90 eggs a year, what 

 is the income from the flock with eggs at 20 cents a 

 dozen? 



7. How many bushels of shelled corn will it buy at 

 45 cents a bushel? Of wheat at 70 cents? 



8. If it takes 12 bushels of corn at 50 cents a bushel, 

 5 bushels of oats at 30 cents, and $7.50 worth of other 

 feed to keep this flock for one year, what is the net profit ? 



9. At 18 cents a pound, what should be received for 

 80 hens weighing 6% pounds each? 



10. The farmers of a community market all their eggs 

 together. If each farm produces 30 eggs per day, how 

 many farms will be needed to fill 7 cases a week, each 

 holding 30 dozen? 



Write to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 D. C, for the following farmers' bulletins: No. 51; No. 

 64: No. 186: No. 200. 



