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your birds out in the more profitable month. That is 

 what we did. 



As a result of such records we can readily make com- 

 parison of earnings of birds hatched in different months 

 during the last eight years. We know how the cost of 

 feeding has varied from month to month in all that time ; 

 how many pullets we raised, how many of them were 

 later sold, and how many died off. 



It is not only financially profitable to have such records 

 but it enables one to place a true value on the data, sta- 

 tistics, and information of a general nature that is passed 

 along by word of mouth and in the poultry press and in 

 books on poultry. 



Our accounts and records go into the subject much 

 more deeply. A general set of books is kept, of course, 

 and in addition we have records that tell us that an 

 average of 4,214 hens consumed in one year 302,398 

 pounds of grain and mash, an average of 70.57 pounds 

 per hen ; that the grain and mash consumption was at the 

 rate of 6.57 pounds per dozen of eggs produced, varying 

 from 4.4 pounds in April to 12.22 pounds in November; 

 the poundage of feed stuffs used in maturing pullets ; the 

 cost of raising pullets ; the cost of producing a dozen 

 eggs, one year for another. We have all this data. It 

 takes time and a lot of work to go into it as extensively 

 as this, but the writer enjoys it; he enjoys doing it and 

 he enjoys the accurate knowledge thereby acquired. But 

 it is not necessary to go into it as deeply as this. 



