174 HOW I MADE $10,000 IN ONE YEAR 



March 15, 19191,200 Chicks 



Cockerels to Cockerel House Pullets to Laying House 



From Brooder House 490 From Brooder House 580 



May 21 from pullets 22 May 21 to cockerels 22 



512 558 



May 31 sold 78 May dead 16 



June 1 balance 434 June 1 balance 542 



This should be continued until the cockerels are all dis- 

 posed of and the pullets are laying. The latter are then 

 carried into an account entitled "Record of Laying Hens/' 



The four examples on page 176 constitute the whole 

 of the system necessary from this time forward. Rule 

 off a page in the tablet for each of the four. It may appear 

 at first glance like a complicated matter, especially to 

 one not accustomed to keeping accounts, but if the 

 reader will take the trouble to apply it to his own case 

 and facts he should have little difficulty in mastering 

 the plan. 



It is well worth while. It is the writer's belief that if 

 the plan covered by these four sheets was put into use on 

 every commercial egg farm in the country, a far greater 

 percentage would be successful. The poultryman who 

 keeps these records faithfully knows at all times just what 

 he is doing and what each and every yard of his birds are 

 doing. And therein lies a big factor of success. If your 

 "Earnings per Hen" record showed month after month, 

 one year after another, that yards of birds hatched after 

 a certain time were always far behind yards hatched at 

 another time, you would sit up nights if necessary to get 



