A COMMERCIAL POINT OF VIEW. lOI 



As the Company's object is to sell eggs as well as rear 

 poultry, the proportion of the above laying stock to the 

 breeding stock will be found the most economical. Tak- 

 ing the average of eggs from a hen to be one hundred and 

 twenty per annum, this gives about fifty thousand eggs 

 from the laying stock, besides hatching about five thou- 

 sand eggs from the breeding stock, allowing even only one 

 sitting per annum to each hen ; and as chickens begin to 

 lay at six months old, and making a fair allowance for 

 male birds, we may anticipate fifty thousand eggs from 

 them witliin the next twelve months. 



Working. 



Expenses. 



£ s. d. 

 Keep of 465 Old Birds, at 6s. per head . . . 139 10 o 



Keep of 5,000 Chickens till twelve months old, at 35. 



per head 750 o o 



Revenue. 



100,000 Eggs, at id. each 416 13 4. 



5,000 Chickens, at los. each 2,500 o o 



2,916 13 4 

 Deduct above Expenses 8S9 10 o 



Leaving a Net Profit of ... . £2,027 10 o 



Thus taking the cost price of the parent birds at twenty 

 shillings each, and the young ones only at ten shillings 

 each, we obtain in the first year a most valuable stock, 

 part of which we can dispose of, as well as the stock of 

 common fowls. 



