NEW JERSEY EXPERIENCE, 5 
to 1,000 hens, I decreased my number to 35 or 40, a 
number more nearly in harmony with the conditions 
of the farm and the market. Experiments with 
incubators and brooders were entirely given up. 
In 1885 I moved to New Jersey. The higher 
prices which prevail near the large cities and the 
summer resorts along the beach for spring chickens 
and eggs revived my interest in the poultry busi- 
ness. Imadea new start with Black 
Poultry Experience Tangshans, and soon had as fine a 
ye 
flock of from 100 to 200 fowls as any 
one could wish to see. Grain was now reasonably 
cheap. I used to buy a second grade of wheat at 
my feed-dealer’s at 80 or 85 cents a bushel, and corn 
in the ear from some neighbor at 25 cents a bushel 
ears; bran and other ground feed in proportion. 
Fish, fish refuse and crabs were easily obtained, 
and largely used to furnish the desired animal food. 
My nearest grocer always bought my cockerels when 
2 or 24 pounds in weight, paying #1.0U0 per pair 
alive. Eggs were mostly sold for hatching purposes, 
at $1.50 per setting when shipped, or 50 cents per 
setting to people who came after them. Hens laid 
well. Sometimes I had to sell the eggs to the gro- 
ceryman, and always received for them from 18 to 
36 cents per dozen. I had two yards of moderate 
size and a one-half acre orchard fenced in. In gar- 
dening time my fowls were kept inside these fences, 
at other times they were allowed to roam at will 
over meadows and fields. There was some work and 
care connected with this enterprise, but on the 
whole it proved interesting and satisfactory. My 
books showed a clear annual profit of from 75 cents 
