A Chapter on Fowls. 
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bought at a high price, the produce sold in the village. The 
fowls are kept clean and well housed and attended to ; fed regu- 
larly three times a day when young, and have the run of a large 
grazing yard in the day time. This year I am varying their 
diet, giving them occasionally cooked liver, scraps of fat, and 
boiled potatoes, with the best shorts and barley. 
Receipts — 1846. 
For eg'g's sold, - ■ . 
For 10 ducks, at I3. 9d. 
For 12 ducks, at Is. 8d. 
For fca chickens, at Is. Gd. 
Expenses — 1846. 
40 pints groats, . . . - 
40 " oats, . . . - 
Barley Meal, - - - • 
Barley, . • . . . 
Tail wheat, - • , - 
Eggs for setting hens, . . . 
Collecting eggs, &c., ... 
£0 SG 
19- 4 
019 4 
1 oe 
10 
0- 7-9 
0- 2 9 
1847. 
16 pints groats, . 
9 bushels barley, 
Barley meal. 
Collecting eggs, &,c., 
£418-2 
£0- 3- 4 
J214- 
0- 7- 9 
0-2 9 
£3- 7-10 
JE0-1.T8 
017C. 
1 00 
(i 3 
Deduct expenses, 
Net profit, . 
1847. 
For eggs sold at GJ per dozen. 
For GO chickens, at Is. 8d. . 
For 8 " at Is. 4d. . 
Deduct expenses. 
8142 
4182 
£316 
Ml- 
5 1«- 
10- 8 
£813- 3 
3- 710 
£5- 4- 4 
Net profit, ... 
Showing a net profit of over two dollars per head for each hen. 
Where, let us ask, is there a flock of sheep that will average that 
amount of clear profit per head? 
We take the following, furnished by a lady, from the same 
paper. 
" I shall," says the lady, " as I am addressing practical men, 
give you one or two practical statements respecting its profitable- 
ness as a branch of farm produce. On the farm from which I 
write, the poultry consists of 60 hens, principally of the Dorking 
breed; 6 ducks, and we generally buy from 70 to 80 geese in the 
autumn. The produce sold in 1847, was as follows: 
3.400 eggs, at 5s. 6d. per long hundred, - - - - £8- 2-11 
2(38 chickens, at Is. 9d. each, 18-4-0 
Eggs and chickens consumed, - . . - . 4-15- 
60 geese, at Is. 6d. each, 11-10- 
10 " consumed in house, ------ 2-15- 
20 ducks, at 2s. Gd. each, 2-10- 
ExpcTises. 
Barley, milk, meal and small corn, - - - £6- 4*1 
Woman's wages and market expense, - - 4-12-7 
70 geese, at Is. 6d. - - - - - - .5- 5-0 
£47-16-11 
16- 1- 8 
£3115- 3 
"In 1845, we realized a profit of JE28-5-7; in 1846, .£29. 
We consider our profit small in comparison with the number of 
fowls we keep, and we feel confident that if we had suitable 
