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attends to 200 chickens, and we hatch a little over 600 chickens. I This 

 boy helps with the milking and helps to deliver the butter and works in 

 the garden and hauling, and he is* on hand for that. 



Mr. Ikert. When does the boy have any time for play or go to Sun- 

 day school? 



A. Every Sunday morning he goes to Sunday school at 9:30. The 

 old man stays at home and looks after things about the farm. The boy 

 does two-thirds of the work of tho poultry and considers that play. 



Q. Is it your own boy or a hired man? 



A. I worked on a dairy farm for fifteen years and did my share and 

 now I am preparing for old age. My boys are at the head of all departments 

 and when they began to work in the creamery they worked for a salary. 



Mr. Spicer: How many hens do you keep at the present time for egg 

 purposes? 



Bluff Jersey: I have 200. In {he fall and winter we cull down lots 

 that we really think we ought to keep. Ordinarily 100 pullets and 100 

 hens. That's 200. 



Mr. Spicer: How many eggs are you getting this cold weather? 



A. At the present time I am not doing anything in that line. I sold 

 out the plant a short time ago and am gust waiting to take hold again. 

 We are building now. 



Q. Were you running a plant at the present time, how many eggs 

 yould you naturally expect to get from 200 hens? 



A. I should expect twelve dozen a day, at least. 



Q. One hundred and fourty- four eggs from 200 hens. What kind are 

 they? 



A. Brown Leghorns. 



Q. What price did you get for your eggs? 



A. Three cents above the market. 



Mr. Ikert: I would like to give you an experience my wife bad with 

 poultry. She has sole control of it. I have nothing to do with it. Our 

 hen house is very simple, being nothing but posts set in the ground and 

 boarded upland /windows, in. the .south side. In the winter time I bank 



