WITH 4200 HENS 179 



Received from sale of eggs $22,325.03 



Received from sale of fertilizer 300.70 



Total gains $22,625.73 



Feed and Supplies $ 9,623.46 



Hired Labor 1,419.45 



Water Taxes (Including 



household use) 103.40 



Sundry Farm Expenses 161.54 



Interest Paid, and all Taxes 930.82 



Total losses 12,238.67 



Difference— Gain for the Year.. $10,387.06 



Against this gain is a charge for depreciation on build- 

 ings and income taxes for 1918 payable in 1919. There 

 is an additional gain by reason of the fact that there was 

 a net increase in the flock of 632 above mortality. 



The reader who analyzes these figures carefully will 

 readily find the answer to the question of how this great 

 profit was made. The writer, with the help of one man 

 constantly 6 days in the week; another man for a short 

 time during the brooding-and-heavy-laying season; and 

 a third man coming in for one day every ten days to do 

 the cleaning, did all the work. More than three thousand 

 pullets were raised in the spring of 1918; and when the 

 maximum hired help was on duty between 10,500 and 

 11,000 birds, }'Oung and old, were being cared for. 



The hired help worked eight hours a day. The writer 

 worked until the work was done; 16-hour days were 

 common during the brooding-season, and 24-hour days 

 sometimes happen. 



It is a man's-sized job. 



