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Presuming that half are cockerels, five hundred and twenty in 

 number, and five hundred and twenty-five pullets, the cockerels all 

 being dressed for market, with the exception of about twenty, from 

 which will be selected twelve for the following breeding season, and 

 the rest sold as utility breeders. The pullets will be thoroughly culled 

 until there are only three hundred and seventy-five left and marketed, 

 dressed, and I will not sell a bird to anybody that I would not keep 

 myself. 



The estimated output of dressed produce is about 2,600 pounds at 

 an average price of twenty cents, amounting to $520.00, while the 

 pullets retained, at $1.00 each, and the cockerels at $2.50 each, amount- 

 ing to $375.00 for the pullets and $30.60 for the cockerels. 



In economy of building it is best to have more than one building 

 going up at one time, so as to economize in labor and lumber. You 

 will notice I have been building two breeding pens on the side of 

 breeding pens as per drawing, dwelling house, colony houses, and now 

 I have the barn in course of construction, so I can keep a cow and 

 a horse and a place to keep wagons, hay and tools needed on a poultry 

 farm. By the first of September I intend to have the laying pens 

 ready to receive the pullets into their winter quarters. Of course, 

 this will necessitate having a lot of workers, but the sooner I get this 

 done the better I like it, as I do not like the system of "just merely 

 dragging along," as it costs more in the end by such process of con- 

 struction and besides in order to have things come out right this is 

 absolutely necessary. 



Now that I have a place to keep both a cow and a horse, I will 

 buy a good all-around horse for about $175.00 and a cow (Holstein 

 grade) calved in March or April, for about $80.00. This will enable 

 me to do my own plowing and hauling, while the cow will produce 

 enough milk to give to my growing youngsters on the range, which 

 will be mixed sour in a mash, this is the skim milk, by using the 

 cooley can. The cow giving on an average of about forty pounds of 

 milk per day and testing four per cent, I will be able to make about 

 ten pounds of butter per week to sell. This will help to keep her 

 with a little profit on the side. This production of forty pounds will, 

 of course, only be when I want it the most, which is in April, May 

 and June, while the rest of the months she will gradually fall off. 



Turning to the pullets, their production, the first hatched in March 

 and April, about one hundred and forty in this section, will start to 

 lay in September with a production of twenty per cent, October 

 twenty-five per cent, November twenty-five to thirty per cent, De- 

 cember thirty per cent, January forty per cent, February forty-five 

 per cent, or on an average of about thirty per cent for the six months. 



The next sections of about two hundred and thirty-five, starting 

 in October with a twenty per cent production, November twenty-five 

 per cent, December thirty per cent, January thirty-five per cent and 

 February forty-five per cent, or an average for six months for first 

 section and five months for the second is 1,500 dozen, at an average 

 price of twenty-eight cents in Missouri, making $420.00. 



Considering now six warm months with an average per cent 

 production for each, March fifty per cent, April sixty per cent, May 

 seventy per cent, June sixty per cent, July forty-five per cent, August 

 thirty-five per cent, giving an average of about fifty-three per cent. 

 Thus for the three hundred and seventy-five the production would 



