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386 eggs, average price 1 cent each, . . $3.86 



7 pecks corn, at 181 cents per peck, . $1.31 



1 peck oats, . . . 0.12 1.43 



Net profit of four hens for less than eight 



months, ...... $2.43 



Average number of eggs laid by each 



hen, ninety-six. 



In the "Boston Cultivator," of Dec. 22, 1849, the 

 following account of poultry raising is given by Mr. 

 Edwin Howard, of Easton, Massachusetts : I com- 

 menced the first day of December, 1848, with nineteen 

 hens and one rooster, [cock,] which stock I valued at 

 twenty dollars, and in the spring I added one more hen. 

 They laid, in one year, with what a few of my pullets 

 have laid in the fall, eighteen hundred and eighty-one 

 eggs, and have raised eighty-two chickens. The amount 

 of eggs sold, was twenty-seven dollars, and ninety-seven 

 cents ; fowls sold, forty-six dollars and forty-eight cents. 

 I have now thirty-two fowls, which I call worth thirty 

 dollars. I have reckoned no eggs higher than fifty 

 cents a dozen ; those that 1 sent off at one dollar a dozen, 

 I deducted fifty cents a dozen for the trouble of packing 

 and delivering, on sending off. 



Eggs sold 1,300 $27.97 



Eggs not sold 581 at 15 cents per dozen, . 7.27 

 Fowls sold, . . . " . . .46.48 



Value of fowls on hand over last year at this 



time, 10.00 



91.72 

 32i bushels of corn and meal, at 75 cents, . 24.37 



Balance in favor of fowls, .... $67.35 



Thus, I might go on with similar accounts almost 

 without end, which show clearly that there is profit at- 

 tending poultry raising, when undertaken on a moderate 

 scale ; but when the business is attempted with a large 

 number of barnyard fowls, obtained at a heavy cost, in- 

 cluding the purchase of food, accommodations, &c., I 

 am free to venture the opinion that, speculations of 



