B. On Sept. 12, 1917, purchased 12 pullets, hatched in May, 1917, 

 averaging 3 pounds 7§ ounces each, at $1.25 per bird, or S15. Cost of 

 feed for eight months or until May 12, 1918, $42.30; began laying in 

 December, and on May 12 had laid 1,133 eggs, or 94.4 eggs each, valued at 

 $71.46. On May 12 the hens averaged 7 pounds 5^ ounces each in weight, 

 valued at $26.40, market price. Profit or labor income for the eight 

 months, $40.56, or $3.38 each. A splendid record, considering the date 

 of hatch and time the birds began laying. 



C. Poultry account for 1917: Fowls on hand Jan. 1, 1917, 31; increase 

 in flock, 3; eggs laid in 1917, 3,912, value $167.65; fowls killed for table, 

 $18.85; sold 6 Leghorn hens, $9; 3 pullets, $6; poultry manure, $9.30; 

 total income, $210.80; expenses, $104.46; profit or labor income, $106.34; 

 profit per hen, $3.43. 



D. Poultry account for 1917: Equipment, 1 house 8 by 25 feet; 1 

 house 10 by 20 feet; also 3 colony coops 3 by 6 feet. Used about 1,600 

 square feet of land for permanent yard, and at times part of garden. 

 Cost of grain, $319.28; sundries, $12.36; total, $331.64. Income: 19 

 fowls for home use, $23.81; fowls and broilers sold, $96.17; dressing, $3; 

 eggs sold and for home use, $409.82; total, $532.80, leaving profit or 

 labor income of $201.16, besides dressing and litter from hen house for 

 garden. 



E. I bought 100 eggs of in April, 1916; had them incubated, 



and got 60 chicks on May 3. These chicks stood me 21 cents apiece the 

 day they were hatched; that paid for the eggs and incubating. From 

 the chicks I raised 21 pullets that started laying Oct. 30, 1916. Following 

 is the monthly production: November, 34; December, 287; January, 

 420; February, 349; March, 395; April, 428; May, 443; June, 365; 

 July, 344; August, 220; September, 283; October, 117; total, 3,685. 

 Total for each of the pullets for the year, 175, and I received from the 

 sale of these eggs, broilers, cockerels, culled pullets, hens I sold for poultry, 

 $199.69. I kept 9 hens to breed from which I valued at $18, making my 

 total receipts from the 100 eggs $217.69. The total cost for all their 

 feed of every kind for the year, cost of the eggs (the original 100) and 

 incubation was $108.81, which left a balance of $108.88. As you see, I 

 have made no reckoning of labor in the cost, for my wife did most of it, 

 that is, the feeding; all the building and heavy work I did in spare time. 

 During the year we paid as high as $4.40 per bag for corn, $1.85 per bag 

 of oats, and all the other grains in proportion. We sold our eggs from 

 30 to 65 cents per dozen; guess it would average somewhere around 50 

 cents per dozen. 



