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each at a cost of about 89 cents each, which may be taken 
as the average fecd cost of keeping a hen where prices 
range as they did at this time. During the year 54 hens 
died, and these were charged to expenditures at $8 per 
dozen, the price fixed for the other fowls. At-the end of 
the year 25 per cent was charged for depreciation and 
$66 charged to the interest account. When the balance 
was struck at the end of the vear the account stood as 
follows: 
EA PENDITURES, 
WOr{6@disass  weseqranee eideews “ehenans Asse nenepoanantis $534.59 
POPIWGOY vcore. so cen oie amas wade aay 2G a Tiean aa ores 120.00 > 
For fowls which Gied........00 c06. cecee bese cee eee eee 36.00 © 
For depreciation in the value of fowls due to age ........ 100.00 
For interest on investment..... 6.6. cee ee ee eee cee nee 66.00 
Pornroheon Cw hens 2c he aa ees Gee aie 602.28 
$1.428.87 
INCOME. 
POMeGZiss cannes Katedra te A ews 22 Sone. Bo Udo ha whew $1,458. 87 
This shows a profit of a little more than $1 per hen, 
which is net profit instead of the profit above feed cost, as 
is frequently the case in published accounts of the profits 
of poultrykeeping. 
It will be noticed that $120 was charged to labor. This 
would indicate that one man was kept busy about one- 
third of the time in caring for these fowls. It seems safe 
to say that one man could easily care for 1,000 hens and 
under similar conditions could make $1,200 per year. 
HENS, COST OF KEEPING.—Prof. Atwood esti- 
mates that it costs 25 cents per pound a year to keep the 
average hen at the prices prevailing in 1909. He bases 
his estimate on the cost of keeping a large flock at the 
West Virginia Experiment Station. It has been asserted 
that it costs twice as much to keep a Light Brahma as it 
does a Leghorn. We would say that we think the differ- 
