.2 MAKING POULTRY PAY 



-need to keep constantly on hand about 2000 chicks. 

 In six months from December to June, you would 

 market at this rate, 4200 chicks; and an average of 

 forty cents each would mak£ your receipts $1680. The 

 cost of raising these chicks, including the cost of 

 keeping the parent stock, and of operating the incuba- 

 tors and brooders, would not be half that. But figuring 

 ■one-half, the profit from six months' business, over all 

 expense, would be $840." But further along in his 

 catalog he says : "In egg farming, the profit runs from 

 $1.50 to $2.40 per hen. The raising of broilers costs 

 about four cents per pound. The average selling price 

 the year round is eight cents per pound. The profit on 

 broilers, therefore, averages 100 per cent. It costs 

 about five cents per pound to raise capons to market 

 maturity. The profit is about $2 per head on them." 

 But as broilers weigh about two pounds each when 

 marketed there is a big hole, somewhere, between forty 

 cents each, and eight cents per pound. And thus again : 

 "Poultry raising is the easiest way that I kjiow of to 

 make money. It is also the surest. The investment 

 necessary is slight, and the risk almost nothing. There 

 is no other line of work open to most people that pays 

 so well for the time spent on it." That's very true, 

 ■except the poultry business as a business is not easy. 

 It's hard work 365 days in the year, same holidays and 

 -Sundays as week days. 



WHERE FIGURES LIE 



Again, the enthusiast who has the hen fever sits 

 ■down and figures that a hen will lay 150 eggs a year 

 (some will lay 200) which at two cents each will bring 

 in $3. It costs $1 to feed her, which leaves a profit 

 •of $2. Now if one hen makes a profit of $2, 500 hens 

 Tvill make a profit of $1000 and 1000 hens $2000, or 



