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BULLETIN 1271, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
of both eggs and poultry. On all but one farm both products were 
produced, but in widely varying proportions. 
The feed requirements listed include only the feed actually fed 
out to the chickens. In addition to this, they foraged about the 
farmstead and adjoining fields for a considerable part of their living. 
Most of the feed they picked up would otherwise have been wasted. 
The labor on poultry was performed largely by women and children, 
but this has been reduced to a man-labor equivalent in computing 
the labor requirements. (See Table 43.) 
Table 43. — Unit requirements per year for 100 chickens, 1921 
Farm No. 1 
Chickens 
Corn 
Oats 
Other 
small 
grain 
Mill- 
feeds 
Total 
grain 
17 
Number 
55 
62 
70 
80 
90 
91 
97 
100 
no 
125 
125 
150 
160 
167 
170 
170 
214 
246 
264 
278 
Pounds 
2,760 
4,013 
1,251 
709 
1,726 
2,203 
4,370 
1,643 
3,359 
1,544 
1,164 
2,076 
1,792 
2,751 
1,422 
1,020 
1,632 
1,673 
1,088 
983 
Pourds 
2,620 
1,411 
2,493 
1,296 
648 
1,472 
708 
1,728 
1,231 
1,389 
1,673 
319 
808 
490 
616 
1,121 
1,249 
1,061 
1,992 
2,440 
Pounds 
545 
Pounds 
Pounds 
5,925 
10 . 
5,424 
19 
3,744 
2 
1,128 
3,133 
12 
2,374 
18... 
3,675 
8 
55 
5,133 
22 
3,371 
13. . 
4,590 
9 
2,933 
6 
80 
2,317 
14 . 
2,395 
5 . . 
68 
2,668 
4 
3,241 
1 
128 
290 
2, 166 
11 
147 
280 
31 
161 
288 
2,578 
15 
3,161 
3 
2,765 
20 
1,136 
112 
4,377 
16 . 
3,823 
Average: 
2,824 chickens, 1921 
141 
99 
1,820 
2,248 
1,301 
1,568 
191 
373 
80 
54 
3,392 
1,778 chickens, 1920 
4,243 
Farm No ' 
Skim- 
milk 
Labor 
Medi- 
cine and 
disinfec- 
tant 
Eggs 
laid 
Poultry 
Man 
Horse 
produced 
17 
Pounds 
Hours 
495 
371 
252 
232 
206 
321 
169 
151 
133 
187 
161 
134 
234 
382 
240 
170 
293 
192 
124 
223 
Labor 
5.5 
3.2 
13.6 
7.5 
6.7 
10.4 
35.1 
Dollars 
Number 
6,578 
5,248 
3,983 
3,549 
4,609 
6,716 
1,839 
6,418 
3,856 
4,428 
6,638 
4,449 
5,880 
3,966 
3,949 
4,282 
5,907 
3,905 
6,659 
5,115 
Pounds 
529 
10 
574 
1,157 
4.73 
1.71 
.31 
4.56 
4.71 
471 
19 
421 
2.. 
152 
12... 
196 
18 
1,179 
W 
8 
779 
22 
372 
2.76 
no 
13 
10.0 
1.6 
9.6 
5.3 
14.7 
7.2 
6.8 
1.8 
14.5 
4.1 
150 
9 
309 
791 
1,583 
293 
6 
2.55 
27 
14.. 
575 
5 
.31 
1.08 
186 
4 
474 
1 
350 
11 
1,234 
2,865 
616 
725 
1,198 
1.16 
312 
15 
377 
3 
3.25 
.85 
1.29 
496 
20 
568 
16 
1.1 
187 
Average: 
2,824 chickens, 1921 
756 
304 
219 
267 
7.0 
16.6 
1.32 
1.71 
4,950 
5,210 
344 
1,778 chickens, 1920 .. 
447 
1 Farms are arrayed in order of number of chickens per farm, beginning with the lowest. 
1 Most of the chickens hatched died during the year. Only enough survived to maintain the breeding 
flock. 
