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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



i POULTRY DEPT. i 



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IN the February number of The Horti- 

 culturist it was recommended to begin- 

 ners in poultry-keeping, in fact to all who 

 do not keep pure breds, to make an investment 

 at once in a trio of any of the pure breeds which 

 could be purchased, preferably in Canada, and 

 usually from a near-l)y fancier. A reasonable 

 figure for a fair Irio is $5.00. This statement 

 I will endeavor to prove. 



At the beginning of March all hatching plans 

 for this season should be fully mature and the 

 breeding birds in the breeding pens. In support 

 of the statement made aboye I am quoting the 

 figures supplied me by a lady in this neighbor- 

 hood who began last summer to hatch and raise 

 chickens artificially. Her experience will be of 

 interest in that it will show the outlay that a 

 beginner may expect to make, and also what it 

 costs a poultry keeper to raise pure -bred chicks 

 to maturity, and then to sell them at less than 

 $5.00 a trio would mean to sell them without 

 profit. 



I had the privilege of visiting the yards of the 

 lady whose experiences I am giving, and can 

 therefore vouch that the strictest economy was 

 used and care taken to prevent waste, while 

 giving the chicks ample rations. Any mishaps 



thai took place were such a.s u Ijcginner might 

 expect to have. Accidents and misfortunes 

 are the price of experience. At the end of 

 January the pens contained about 50 very good 

 specimens of Barred Plymouth Rocks, chiefly 

 pullets, several of which were laying. The cost 

 of the eggs from which the.se birds were hatched, 

 and the food and other expenses are as follows: 

 220 Baixed Rock eggs, 515; coal oil (2 hatches), 

 54.50; food, straw, sand, etc., $33.77. This 

 gave a total expenditure of $53.27. The re- 

 ceipts in that time were: 14 eggs at 50 cents a 

 dozen, or 58 cents, and chicks used and sold, 

 511.10, or total receipts of $11.68. This, then, 

 leaves the actual cost of the 50 fowl to be 

 $41.59, about 83 cents per head. 



A trio eight months old, therefore, will on the 

 average actually cost the producer $2.49. Sell- 

 ing at $5 leaves a profit of $2.51, from which 

 the producer or fancier has to deduct the cost of 

 management, care, advertising, shipping, coops, 

 and sometimes cartage to express ofllce. Under 

 these circumstances no fair-minded person will 

 say $5.00 a trio is an exorbitant price. 



The question is often asked, "How much will 

 it cost to start keeping fowl on a small scale? ' 

 Below will be given the exact expenditure in 

 detail, regarding the chicks hatched, how they 

 were fed and all about them. They represent 

 the experiences of the lady beginner whose 

 figures have been used already in this article. 

 This lady had very little, if any, experience in 

 poultry keeping, and was guided always in the 

 operation of the incubator by the instructions 

 supplied with it. The very successful hatches 

 speak well for the machine — a new one never 



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The items are as follows: Expenses — Incu- 

 bator, $22.00; 120 eggs (Barred Rock, 1st hatch 

 May 24), $8.1X); 120 eggs (Barred Rock, 2nd 

 hatch June 22), $7.00; brcKxier (second hatch), 

 S3.(M); coal oil, $4.50; wire for the run-way, 

 51.00; thermometer, 40 cents; lumber, 54 cents; 

 new burner, wick, etc., 17 cents. From this 

 total ex])enditure of $47.21 the first hatch gave 

 75 and the second 77 chickens. The cost of 

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 Puritan Ux>d for small chicks, $5.24; grain 

 (wheat, oats, cracked corn, barley, $17.38; 

 groimd food (corn and shorts), $3.85; straw for 

 scratching pen, S3.(X); grits, 35 cents; sour milk, 

 25 cents; cabbage, 70 cents; sand for pens (2 

 loads), S3.00; giving a total cost of $33.77 



By the end of July the 152 chicks had dwindled 

 to 90. By keeping the brooder too hot 38 had 

 been smothered at one time. Over-crowding 

 at night killed the others. All were healthy. 



These figures show for the first outlay to 

 begin on a fairly extensive scale, S50.00 will be 

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