292 POULTRY BREEDING 
ducted by Prof. Horace Atwood at the West Virginia 
station in 1907. To determine the profits of keeping a 
large flock he took 600 White Leghorn pullets averaging 
5 months old, weighing an average of 2.53 pounds when 
the experiment began, and carried them through a year, 
keeping careful account of all expenses connected with 
the keeping of the flock. These 600 hens laid during the 
year 67,769 eggs or 5,647 dozen and 5 eggs, averaging 
113 each. The eggs were sold in the market at from 
20 to 40 cents a dozen and brought $1,458.87, an average 
of a fraction more than 24 cents a dozen the year through, 
an average price easy to reach when hens are kept so as 
to lay well in winter when eggs are high in price. The 
house they were kept in is described and a plan given in 
another place. That the hens were well kept is shown 
by the record for December and January, in which 
months they laid 3,372 and 4.645 eggs respectively. The 
quantity and cost of feed for the year follows: 
Pounds. Cost. 
COMME wes: nes: ere aay Gere Ree YAR SEREES Oe 3.441 $42.88 
Wheat bran........ Ai mani mnagavage gives DABL 7174 
Wheat middlings........ .... wid & ae (ean RENBY 39.82 
Oilmeal 0.6 cecc002 oes Secakee Feek> SK Bean aA 950 18.72 
Whe atts icing eacawideanind ce Ae. aes aia wean 10.509 152.21 
COMMS mas oah oe eo ere di pied aoa ons aa cna 8.952 103.81 
BEEL STAD sri. winigsideederda : BAAR 57.70 
Green cut bone.. .... 0.2.4... ae) GS 1.33 
BSS 2Oscsccsseusese aeaes 2 43 Z 1 536 3.75 
FRU fecal: tntdy Anita: sass ae eal BREE Aas tae 1,120 16.80 
Ground outs... . BOO He) adds wacom wag BBN 5.78 
Oyster Shellie. ick wea ee oe eee ere) ec) $8.30 
Mica crystal grit... ..... 26... fos Site * siete “isbn 1,400 7.70 
Gals 
Slelmm Me scccgdanenad- iv sovess ive | de) 8 Ree 205 4.10 
$534.59 
These hens consumed more than 36,000 pounds of 
grain, heef scrap and cut bone, an average of 60 pounds 
