72 MY POULTRY DAY BY DAY 
A sitting consisted of 12 eggs if to be dispatched ; 13 eggsif called for. 
Altogether 163} sittings were sold, infertile eggs usually being replaced 
free of charge if returned. 
3 and 4. Board of Agriculture’s Scheme 
The Board of Agriculture gave a grant of £7, 10s. on condition that not 
less than 100 sittings were sold at 2s. per sitting. With the grant, the 
price realised per sitting works out at 3s. 54d.—7.e. a penny per sitting 
more than the sittings sold privately. 
5. 80 Infertile Eggs 
The results of home hatching were as follows :— 
No. No. a Percentage 
Month of Hens ofEggs Infertiles "atch of Fertile 
set set out Eggs hatched 
February _ ; 5 58 5 33 62 
March. ‘ . 37 438 35 282 65 
April ‘ ‘ " 27 329 19 233 75 
May Z . ‘ 20 258 14 19I 78 
June . ; ‘ I 10 fe) 10 100 
July . : . 3 42 5 27 73 
August. : : 9 114 2 85 76 
September 5 - 8 IOI fe) 72 71 
Total _ = 110 1350 80 933 73 
Nineteen chickens were lost through stoats and four through rats. 
Up to the end of May 89 hens were set on 1083 eggs as follows :— 
261 eggs were Buff Orpingtons, of which 188 hatched out—72% 
311 a Salmon Faverolles _,, 205 95 —66% 
198 i White Wyandottes ,, 112 5 —57% 
104 i Black Minorcas 3 75 i —72% 
94 ” Black Leghorns ” 71 » 75% 
115 5s White Leghorns 5 88 ss —76% 
1083 i a rE. 
No Black Minorca or White Leghorn eggs were set until March. The 
eggs set after the end of May were not classified. 
6. 159 Hens sold 
The hens were all sold between June and September at prices varying 
from 2s. 6d. to 4s. 3d. each. The average price was 3s. 4d. 
