PROFITS IN POULTRY 5, 



was an average of 247 eggs from a flock of twenty 

 Rose Comb White Leghorns by a Connecticut poultry- 

 keeper; the smallest from another Connecticut poul- 

 tryman who obtained 485 eggs from forty-nine fowls,, 

 or about ten eggs per hen per year. While this aver- 

 age record of eighty-two eggs per hen may seem small,, 

 it must be borne in mind the number of fowls given 

 also includes the roosters, which would make a slight 

 difl?erence in the average yield. 



The eggs sold for $1.15 per hen, showing a fair 

 profit on eggs alone over cost of feed. A considerable 

 portion of the income was derived from the sale of 

 poultry, either young stock or the original fowls, which 

 were turned off and replaced by young stock raised 

 during the year. This amounted to $17,118.81, or 

 sixty-eight cents per hen. Making no estimate for stock 

 raised, but charging the entire food cost to eggs, makes 

 the eggs cost 41.15 cents each for food consumed, 

 but as nearly one-third of the food used was consumed 

 by young stock, the net food cost per egg was about 

 three-quarters cent each. This must, of course, vary 

 largely with locality, as food costs more than double in 

 some sections what it does in others. It can safely be 

 assumed, however, that the food cost of eggs is in the 

 neighborhood of one-half their market value. 



The total receipts per fowl amounted to $1.95, 

 each, leaving a profit of $1.01 over cost of feed and 

 sixty-seven cents net over cost of food and labor. This 

 gives a net income of $46.23 per flock and a gross in- 

 come of $135.40. The gross income is actually much 

 nearer the profit derived from the fowls in the contest 

 than the net figures, for nearly all the labor given was 

 that employed at odd intervals, which would otherwise 

 be of small value, while a good proportion of the food 

 was that produced on the farms and gardens, or refuse 

 from the table which would otherwise go to waste. As 



