12 MAKING POULTRY PAY 



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bees and the three acres on which strawberries and 

 celery are grown for market, I know are more profit- 

 able to me than would be a good dairy farm of lOO 

 acres. — [W. H. Jenkins, Delaware County, N. Y. 



Keeping Poultry for Pin Money — I am a farmer's 

 wife and in the spring of 1899 I determined to find 

 some way to get "woman's pin money." I decided to 

 turn my thoughts to poultry. I set a good many eggs 

 from White and Barred Plymouth Rocks that were on 

 the place and bought some others of different breeds. 

 The result was 240 chicks, some of which were sold 

 for broilers, and some the crows carried off, so that I 

 had 100 pullets and five old hens in the fall. I put 

 twenty-eight in an old henhouse and the remaining 

 seventy-two in an underground cellar. I fed a warm 

 mash through the winter and gave them good feed and 

 care. I closed the year with 140 hens on hand. They 

 laid during the year 12,129 eggs, which brought 

 $266.60. Stock sold brought $29.35 ^^^ sixteen bar- 

 rels of manure $12, making total receipts $307.95. 

 Feed and supplies cost $122.95, labor $25.50, birds 

 "bought $2.20, making total expenses for the year 

 $150.65, which left a profit of $157.30, to which may 

 be added $48.33, gain in inventory value from in- 

 creased number of hens. — [Mrs. D. McDonald, Con- 

 necticut. 



WHO SHOULD ESSAY THE POULTRY BUSINESS? 



It often strikes me as a part of the irony of life, 

 "that the two classes who seem most eager and deter- 

 mined to try their hand at poultry are those who have 

 no income whatever, and those who already have an 

 assured and ample income. These, it seems to me, are 

 just the two classes to whom poultry insures most risk, 

 ■with least prospect of satisfaction. 



