300 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



263 dozen eggs, at market price, .... 

 In addition to eggs 34 fowls brought, 



Deduct wortli of thirteen fowls to make stock as large 

 as January 1, . 



Proceeds, ....... 



Cost of keep for year, ..... 



Net profit, 



Several dozen eggs set not reckoned. 



^21 82 



In addition to this, eight barrels and nineteen wheelbarrow 

 loads of hen manure saved ; the value of which can be esti- 

 mated by those who have used this kind of fertilizer. During 

 the year, corn and eggs, too, were very costly, the former 

 ranging from $2.08 to $2.50 per bag ; the latter from 16 to 28 

 cents per dozen. The hen-yard contains plum trees, and grape 

 vines trained on the fence, wliich ordinarily would pay the 

 interest on the cost of coops, &c. 



January 1, 1856. Had a stock of 40 hens and 5 cocks. The 

 feed for the year consisted of seven bushels of shelled corn ; 

 two and a half barrels cob meal ; seven bushels oats ; one-half 

 bushel buckwheat ; one and a half bags meal ; four bags corn ; 



cost, . $26 86 



Eggs set, $2.08 ; turpentine, 50 cents, . . . 2 58 



$29 44 



