THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1907 



andottes. There were twenty-nine flocks 

 engaged in the experiment. In a table 

 showing the summary of the tests, rank 

 one in food cost of one dozen eggs was 

 held by White Leghorns (pullets), the 

 amount being $.085. In eggs laid per 100 

 fowls per day the same flock held first 

 place with the number thirty-eight to their 

 credit. They were fifteenth in cost of 

 food consumed per 100 fowls, the amount 

 being $32.06. The minimum food cost 

 of one dozen eggs was $.085, the max- 

 imum being $.339. The maximum num- 

 ber of eggs laid per 100 fowls per day 

 was thirty-eight, the minimum being 9.3. 

 The minimum cost of food per 100 fowls 

 during this period of seventeen weeks was 

 $17.58, the maximum being $52.20. 



In the seventeen weeks from Decem- 

 ber 1, 1901, to March 29, 1902, and in 

 the similar period of 1902-3, in twenty- 

 nine flocks representing ten owners and 

 5,000 fowls, the average daily production 

 of eggs was 22.8 per 100 fowls. 



During the same period the average 

 food cost of one dozen eggs was nearly 

 18 ($1.77) cents. The flocks that laid 

 most eggs during December and January 

 laid most eggs also in March. 



The egg production of pullets was nota- 

 bly in excess of that of hens, particularly 

 in the earlier periods when the price of 

 eggs was highest. 



The average cost of feeding 100 hens 

 for seventeen weeks was $35.33. 



The average value of product exceeded 

 the cost of food by $16.13 per 100 fowls. 



1 he cost of producing a dozen eggs as 

 given appears somewhat high, but it must 

 be remembered that the cost of food in 

 the Eastern states is higher than in the 

 West and the prices of eggs are corres- 

 pondingly higher, the price reaching dur- 

 ing the winter referred to 36'.; cents. 

 This makes the highest selling price of 

 one dozen eggs nearly twice as much as 

 the average cost of production, and this is 

 about the usual ratio. 



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The 



Strawberry Photographic 

 Contest for 1907 



LAST YEAR the photographic contest between members of 

 The Strawberry family aroused much pleasant. rivalry, 

 and resulted in giving to the world many beautiful and in- 

 structive views of strawberry fields. It is our purpose to make 

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 photograph of a field of strawberries not less than one acre in 

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 strawberry patch — as follows: 



A—Commercial Straw- 

 berry Field 



1st priae Photograph, cash $5.00 

 2nd prize Photograph, cash 3.00 

 3d prize Photograph, cash 2.00 



B— Family Strawberry 

 Patch 



1st prize Photograph, cash $5.00 

 2nd prize Photograph, cash 3.00 

 3d prize Photograph, cash 2.00 



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 contest are to be the property of the Kellogg Publishing Com- 

 pany. The season will extend from spring until late fall, the 

 individual contestant choosing his own time for taking the 

 view; the desire being to show ideal conditions at every stage 

 of development of the plants. Expert photographers will pass 

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