186 COMMON SENSE 
EXPENSES. 
Interest on cost of buildings, plant and stock fowls-..-....- $120.00 
Labor Account—1 woman at $15.00 per month and board... 310.00 
1 boy at $2.00 per week and board...--.--- 200.00 
Man—half time... - - 250.00 
Food—900 bushels of corn at 56 cts-- - 504.00 
800 bushels wheat at 87 cts. - - - 696.00 
2,000 Ibs. oil cake meal.----.------------+-2-0eeeneeee 37.50 
2,000 lbs. corn meal at $1.25.-....------------ eee enon 25.00 
2,000 lbs. wheat bran at $1.10 per 100.- = 22.00 
3,000 cabbuges. ..-------- 02-2222 e nee eee ee eee ee eee 126.00 
Meat, bones, calves, etC.-.--------------- ee eee eee e ne 57.00 
Puelic sesiesicnies nose shen tes sta ceonane sationmsd cia 15.65 
$2,363.15 
BECEIPTS. 
Eggs, 116,197 or 9,683 dOZ..--.--------2-0 ee ee ee cence acne eee $2,557.48 
* Broilers". ossernse cere cersecnsas oa veaseeseceneeen ew wareene 383.75 
“¥Fowls ”—or old hens--..----------- eih’a ame eareaeiateins 287.25 
Cockerels and inferior pullets. 473.15 
Pare WIS CUCKEEEIS 1a nnn ccdaens eo ted nad tendaonees xe 27.50 
Egvs of thoroughbreds.......-.-.-.. setate aratetetpedite eepels orctciareictatee 123.50 
$3,853.23 
Expenses as above 2,363.15 
Bclt lh emamioabaaukongubbierakanis ep tuagaeieatens $1,490.08 
At the close of the year (June roth) I had 1,126 hens in the lay- 
ing yards; 439 young pullets, and between 7oo and 800 young 
chickens. ‘The old hens and the “broilers” had all been sold off, 
thus reducing my stock to a minimum, and consequently making 
the feed bills of the year appear quite large in proportion to the 
actual number of birds on hand. But it must also be borne in 
mind that the food here charged had reared and fattened the cock- 
erels of the previous fall. ‘The prices of both the wheat and corn 
are very Considerably less than the market rates, simply because I 
happened to procure a considerable quantity of both in a slightly 
damaged state, but perfectly good for chickens. 
In addition to the food charged in the bill as such, however, 
there was a considerable quantity which was really represented in 
the labor account. Thus we had about 120 bushels of corn of our 
own raising, besides milk, potatoes, turnips, clover, grass, some 
