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marketing forty boxes strawberries per day during the season. 

 Outside of bis dairy, strawberries, and other farm produce, 

 he cleared a net profit of 1600 on poultry last year, having 

 no help but that of his son, the two doing all the work of 

 the small farm. 



The census for 1870 informs us the hay crop was valued at 

 three hundred and eighty-four million dollars ; the value of 

 poultry and eggs sold v/as four hundred and fi.ve million dol- 

 lars. When we take into consideration that this great industry 

 is one of the few that is conducted on strictly cash princi- 

 ples, and when properly conducted always yields good profits, 

 it is an inducement for all of us, lovers of domestic animals, 

 to devote a portion of our farms to the raising of poultry, in 

 place of the crops we now cultivate, costing so much, and 

 requiring so hard labor with so little profit. 



STATEMENT OF MR. RANKIN. 



Poultry Account for Year Ending Sept. 1st, 1882. 



Cb. 



To 813.^ dozen eggs sold, . . . $284 55 



To 137 fowl sold, .... 136 23 



To 571 chicks sold, 631 24 



To 314 pullets and cockerels on hand, Sept. 



1, 1882, @ $1.25, ... 392 50 



$1,444 52 



Sept. 1st, 1881. 



Dr. 



Stock on hand, 138 pullets and cockerels, 



@ $1.25, $172 50 



To grain and food of all kinds, . • . 337 83 



To 35 gallons kerosene, for incubator, @ .08, 2 80 



$513 13 



Net profits, . . . . . . $931 39 



Taken from my books. 



JAMES RANKIN. 



