8 MAKING POULTRY PAY 



or fowls for breeding purposes or, with American ana 

 Asiatic breeds, in the greater weight of market poultry. 



CONSERVATIVE AND ACTUAL PROFITS 



A profit of $1 per hen a year may be counted 

 on as reasonably as you can estimate profits in any 

 business, by one who will give the fowls necessary care 

 and attention. There are scores of people who are 

 making a good, comfortable living keeping 200 or 300 

 hens, producing eggs for market, raising the pullets 

 each year and dressing and seUing the cockerels. It 

 does not require much capital for a start, but one 

 should have enough to get through the summer and 

 fall in easy circumstances and take into consideration 

 that 600 or 700 chickens will eat a good many dollars" 

 worth of grain while growing. Here is what some 

 poultry keepers have done and are doing: 



From our experience with fowls and cows, with- 

 out counting the expense of either, we had decided that 

 twenty-five hens would pay full as much profit as a 

 cow and with less labor. An accurate record showed 

 us that the hens brought an average profit of $1 each. 

 — [Mrs. J. L. Marvin, Rensselaer County, N. Y. 



Last year I kept an average of 144 hens, starting 

 the year with 143 hens and pullets and closing with 

 145. The monthly financial record is as follows: 



FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE FLOCK 



Income 



January $37-i6 



February 40.21 



March 42.36 



April 46.30 



May 39.39 



