lO MAKING POULTRY PAY 



total receipts of the flock to $267.59. The feed, nearly- 

 all of which was bought, cost $88.78, labor was worth. 

 $27.48 and other incidental expenses brought the total 

 expense to $121.21, leaving a profit of $146.38, to- 

 which should be added a gain of $18.04 in added value 

 of stock at the end of the year and of $17.92 profit 

 on eggs and poultry bought and sold to customers. 

 This, with the pay for her time, brings Mrs. Johnson's- 

 income close to $200, and that from a small flock which 

 were cared for largely at odd moments. An interest- 

 ing comparison of the egg and hatching records of her 

 flocks for seven years is here given : 



LAYING AND HATCHING RECORD FOR SEVEN YEARS 



I began with 100 chickens at New Year's, and at 

 New Year's a year later had 185, besides eating sixtv- 

 six and selling $16 worth at prices ranging from fif- 

 teen to twenty-five cents each. Also sold $103 worth 

 of eggs, after eating all we could. Did not pack any 

 eggs, but sold every week at market prices, which 

 were as low as six cents a dozen for a while in the. 

 summer, and eighteen cents was the highest price I 

 got in winter. My flock is just a scrub flock. — [Mrs^ 

 J. Sykes Wilson, Davison County, S. D. 



A profit of $2.67 per hen was made by W H. 

 Pearson of Cumberland County, Me., who started the 

 year with seventy-five Barred Plymouth Rock hens, 

 and closed wrth efgfity-frvr. T?re recerpts from 11,594. 



♦Sold 250 newly hatched chicks. 



