MAKING A START 59 



SECOND TEAK 



Eggs for hatching $ 450.00 



Feed for chicks 300.00 



Another laying house 1,000.00 



Small cockerel house 125.00 



Egg boxes, pony, etc., as men- 

 tioned above 200.00 



$2,075.00 



A water system will have to be provided; 

 a well with three H.P. engine and pump, 

 tank, and stand pipes, etc. 



The income from the first year's pullets, 

 above the cost of their feed, should be $750.00 

 and might be more. 



THIED TEAE 



The first year's pullets are now two-year- 

 old hens. From these birds one should breed 

 600 pullets, and then sell the breeders as 

 they stop laying in the autumn. Sufficient 

 colony houses should be built so as to be ready 

 in June. These will be occupied by the 500 

 pullets until the laying houses are emptied of 

 the hens. The cost of these colony houses 



