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Repairs and any other incidental expenses are also charge- 

 able. 



On the credit side of the ledger must be entered items covering 

 the sale of any eggs or stock, the products consumed on the 

 home table, and an allowance made for the value of the manure 

 as a fertilizer, or perhaps feathers. As much should be charged 

 for the eggs used in the home kitchen as would have to be paid 

 for eggs of a similar grade in the retail store. 



Information. — Those engaged in the poultry business as a 



(Courtesy Purdue Experiment Station) 



Fig. 65. — "A good hatch." Note the tray of empty egg shells on top of the 

 incubator, and the leg bands on the chicks. 



specialty and who raise fowls on an extensive scale, will find it 

 to their advantage to gather as much additional information 

 about their flocks as possible. They should ascertain the laying 

 capacity of each flock, and what it costs to feed each flock. 

 These facts enable you to estimate the cost of producing a dozen 

 eggs at different seasons of the year. If itemized records are 

 kept of the feed consumed by different flocks and by broods of 

 chicks, it is possible to figure out the cost of raising certain breeds 

 to maturity, and of keeping different varieties for a year. 



