PJIOFITS IN POULTRY 9 



Income CoSt of feed Profit 



June 29.06 8.90 20.16 



July 19.96 10.00 9.96 



August 22.08 9.40 12.68 



September 19.38 11.00 8.38 



October 22.32 10.75 ii-57 



November 18.00 10.90 7.10 



December 28.18 10.75 18.43 



Total $36540 $127.58 $237.82 



From the total profit should be taken $7 for stock 

 bought and $12 for eggs and oil used for hatching, 

 which leaves $218.82 as the exact profit for the year. 

 Chickens consumed by family were not counted. No 

 account of time was kept. I hatched 300 chickens, but 

 raised only seventy pullets and about eighty cockerels. 

 Fifty died from wet, cold weather when from one to 

 two weeks old, and the rest disappeared gradually until 

 they were shut up for the winter. Fifteen disappeared 

 after they had been housed. — [M. C. Harris, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



The sweepstakes prize of $200 in American Agri- 

 culturist's money-in-poultry contest was awarded to 

 Mrs. Leonard Johnson of Radnor, Pa., not because of 

 the greatest profit, but because her report complied the 

 closest with the rules under which the contest was held. 

 She lives on a place of one-fourth acre, and keeps a 

 small flock of mostly White and Barred Plymouth 

 Rocks. She began the record year with sixty-three 

 hens, two males and eighty early-hatched chicks, and 

 closed with twenty-eight hens, two males and sixty-two 

 pullets. The hens laid during the year 5828 eggs, 

 which sold for $149.18. Those used and set were worth 

 $5.90. She sold 126 head of broilers and old fowls for 

 $100. The hen manure, feathers, etc., brought the 



