58 COMMERCIAL EGG FARMING 



$1000 -with yards. (Before the war it 

 cost about seven hundred dollars.) So that 

 by October the following sums will have 

 been spent: 



Eggs for hatching $ 450.00 



Eeed 300.00 



Incubators 135.00 



Incubator room 50.00 



Brooder house 500.00 



Laying house 1,000.00 



$2,435.00 

 For drinking vessels, etc., allow five dollars. 



A granary will be necessary. If an old 

 building can be iised fifty dollars might fit it 

 up. A pony, costing fifty dollars ; a manure 

 cart, a dry-mash cart, each costing, say, 

 twenty-five dollars, wheelbarrow, scrapes for 

 cleaning boards ; fifteen egg boxes, each hold- 

 ing thirty dozen eggs, cost two dollars each, 

 total thirty dollars. An egg-packing room is 

 also necessary. 



