158 PROFITABLE POULTRY PRODUCTION 



$8 a dozen, would amount to $36. If it is assumed 

 that the 600 pullets are worth $400 at the beginning 

 of the test and that they depreciate in value during 

 the year 25 per cent, then this depreciation amounts 

 to $100. Assuming that the house and fowls repre- 

 sent an investment of $1,100, then the interest at 

 6 per cent amounts to $66 and the account stands 

 as follows: 



Income 



Tor eggs $1,458.87 



?1,458.87 



Expenditures 



For feed $634.59 



For labor 120. 0» 



For fowls which died 36.00 



For depreciation in the value of fowls due to age... 100.00 



For interest on investment 66.00 



For profit on 600 hens 602.28 



$1,458.87 



The total profit from the 600 fowls was $602.28, 

 or practically $1 a fowl. The total expense for the 

 year was $856.58, or $1.42 a fowl. There were pro- 

 duced 5,646 dozen eggs at an average cost of 15 

 cents a dozen, and during the year 9 per cent of the 

 fowls died. The fowls averaged 113 eggs each. It 

 is possible that this somewhat low egg production 

 could have been increased by some other S3'stem 

 of feeding. 



