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THIRD YEAR. 



Owing to the increase of eggs, proper handling of the meat pro- 

 ducts, I am putting up a ''useful" house to meet these demands. 



This year there will be a few eggs sold for hatching, as a better 

 class of stock is on hand to select them from. The hens are now two 

 years old, thereby being the proper age for breeding, because they can 

 put all that is needed into the eggs, whereas if they were pullets this 

 energy would be divided, not only that, but you cannot get a big 

 chicken from a small egg, which is essential when producing chicks 

 for meat. 



Approximately there will .be the same amount of chicks raised 

 as the two preceding years, as there are only four hundred and 

 eighty pullets to replace each year, with the exception of what chicks 

 are reared from the mating of the four hens and the cockerel. These 

 chicks are hen hatched and hen brooded, and from this mating the 

 cockerels will be chosen for the breeding pens and also the fourth 

 year. The breeding chart will be started, as there will be two families 

 now. 



In the fall when the pullets start to lay, places will be made for 

 them by thoroughly culling over the layers to replace the old breed- 

 ers. .Thus, from four hundred and eighty layers two hundred and 

 forty breeders will be selected, giving a good chance for thorough 

 culling. (As I have not mentioned that the six colony houses are 

 used during the winter, accommodating twenty per house until the 

 middle of March, when they are culled and put into the laying house, 

 where also culling has been done to make room for them and the 

 culls sold dressed for market.) 



STATEMENT OF COST OF EQUIPMENT, MAINTENANCE AND INCOME, 



THIRD YEAR. 



1 useful house (including within it the incubator cellar, killing 

 room, fattening room, egg room, store room and attic .... 



Seeds: For rotation and keeping yards green 



Cost of fuel for hatching and brooding of chicks 



Feed for rearing 1200 chicks, including the hen brooded 



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



per month each 



Feed for 120 layers for 3} months, 9 cents each per month 



Feed for 360 layers for 9 months, 9 cents each per month 



Feed for 240 breeders for 12 months, 9 cents each per month. . 



Cost of feed for horse, at 24 cents per day 



Cost of feed for cow 



5150 dozen eggs for 6 months, at .215 



162 dozen for hatching for own use 



1980 dozen eggs for the next six months before and after culling, 



at .225 



1200 dozen eggs from pullets for 4 months (480), at .235 



20 dozen infertile eggs sold to baker, at 15 cents 



2260 pounds of poultry (dressed), average 20 cents 



1800 pounds of hens (dressed), average at 16 cents 



Sale of eggs, chicks, cockerels, of my best stock, estimated 



720 birds on hand 



17 cockerels. 4 hens on hand 



Manure from chirks 



Manure from hens, 648 cwt., at 40 cts . . 



$750.00 



25.00 



31.25 



240.00 



172.80 



37.80 



291 . 60 



259 . 20 



87.60 



53.22 



$1,107.25 

 97.50 



445 . 50 

 282 . 06 

 3.15 

 452.00 

 288 . 00 

 150.00 

 720.00 

 180.00 

 80.00 

 259 . 20 



