60 COMMERCIAL EGG FARMING 



will be about two hundred dollars for twenty 

 houses if the cheapest grades of lumber 

 are used. 



The income from the farm, in the third 

 year, should be $1500.00 or more on the 

 $5000'.00 invested. 



If hens are bought in the autumn for the 

 purpose of obtaining hatching eggs in the 

 spring, it is well to buy those which are 

 about eighteen months old. For such birds, 

 if of good strain and from a reliable breeder, 

 a dollar and a half to two dollars each must 

 be paid. Cockerels to mate with the hens 

 will cost three to four dollars each. 



The money to be spent, if hens instead of 

 hatching eggs are bought to make a start, 

 will be : 



FIKST YEAE 



300 hens at $1.50 $ 450.00 



15 cockerels cost 50.00 



Laying house and yards for 315 



birds 725.00 



Feed for 315 birds for 12 months 



(14,000 lbs. grain 14,000 lbs. 



mash) 500.00 



Incubators 135.00 



