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SECOND YEAR. 



In the spring I intend finishing the breeding pens, there being 

 eight in all when finished, holding two hundred and forty birds in all. 

 Perhaps it would not be out of place to mention the principal things 

 that are not clearly shown in the drawing for instance, the partitions 

 which are to be boarded up all the way in the neighborhood of the 

 roosting closet and the rest boarded three feet up from the floor to 

 the roof covered with cloth to prevent a draught. 



The hydrants are on the north side of the door in every other 

 pen. There are three in the laying house and four in the breeding 

 house. 



If stone is not plentiful the foundations can either be made of 

 concrete or of building tile. 



It necessitates having a feed room that also will be built this 

 year and the rest of the fencing will also be done, and the colony 

 houses for two families of cockerel breeders. 



STATEMENT OF COST OP EQUIPMENT, MAINTENANCE AND INCOME, 



SECOND YEAR. 



Addition of six pens at $2.50 per hen 



Feed room to north of barn 



2 colony houses fixed for breeders on range, at $32.50 



30 rods of fence enclosing breeding pens, afc $1.00 



8 gates, as indicated on drawing 



Seeds: Corn, rye, oats, peas, barley and vetches, alfalfa 



^Cost of fuel for hatching and brooding of chicks 



Feed for rearing 1045, at 20 cents each 



Feed for 480 pullets for 4 months, at 1.08 per year, or 9 cents per 



month 



Feed for 60 hens for 12 months, at 9 cents per month 



Feed for 375 layers for 12 months, at 9 cents per month 



Cost of feed for horse for 12 months, estimated at 24 cents per day 



Cost of feed for cow for 12 months, estimated 



300 dozen eggs sold from 60 hens, at 25 cents 



1950 eggs for hatching (kept), at 5 cents 



2180 pounds of dressed poultry, average, at 20 cents 



12 cockerels that were kept over the first year, at $5.00 



21 dozen infertile sold for 15 cts, to the grocer or baker 



3750 dozen eggs for the 9 months, at 25 cents 



(The birds are now culled for breeding pens.) 

 195 culled layers, including the old 60 sold for market, at 50 cts. 



1200 dozen from 480 pullets for 4 months, at 23 cents 



423 dozen from the birds in the breeding pen (240), at 23 5 cts. 



720 birds on hand, valued at $1.00 each 



7800 pounds of milk, both fed to chicks and sold, at .015 



318 pounds of butter, average 25 cents 



1 calf sold as bob veal 



16 cockerels bought to mate with 240 brooders, at $5.00 



1 cockerel to establish own strain of breeder, at $50.00 



4 hens to mate with above cockerel, at $10.00 



Manure from chicks 



Manure from hens and pullets, 162 cwt., at 40 cts 



Less total fixed charges (insurance, taxes, depreciation of 

 equipment and stock) 



$450.00 



225 . 00 



65.00 



30.00 



25.00 



15.00 



31.25 



209 . 00 



172.80 

 64.80 



405 . 00 

 87.60 

 53.22 



90.00 

 50.00 

 40.00 



$2,013.67 



$2,013.67 



$75.00 

 97.00 



436.00 



60.00 



3.15 



937.50 



97.50 

 282.00 



94.47 

 720.00 

 117.00 



78.00 

 6.20 



80.00 

 64.80 



$3,149.12 

 368.85 



$2,780.27 



