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A Chapter on Fowls. 
houses and yards, we could realize a much greater profit than we 
do at present. 
" I have received the following statement from a lady. She 
says: ' We have about 50 hens of different kinds, none of the 
best, or our profits ought to be much larger; also 10 ducks; they 
are fed upon small corn, which is only suitable for poultry or pigs; 
we do not breed any for sale, merely for our own use. 
Amount received for eggs during last year, . - . £16*1U*0 
Cost of food at 2s. per week, 5* 4*0 
Net profit, £11- 6*0 
Again another lady says, " I should think we have about forty 
hens. They are of no particular breed; just the common barn- 
door fowls. Some, I believe, are from the Duke of Northumber- 
land's breed; they are grey and brown mottled, very large, and 
excellent layers. We have 5 or 6 ducks, and 3 turkey hens, 
which are very dark, nearly black. They brought up last spring 
24 young ones. We had only about 30 chickens last year, which 
has rather thrown us back. We bought in 37 geese at 3s. 6d. 
each, in the autumn, and sold them again in a very short time, at 
5s. 9d., 5s. 6d., and 5s. 4d. each. We do not get the highest 
price for eggs, as we generally send them by the carrier to the 
market. The turkey eggs, in the latter part of summer, we gene- 
rally sell for one penny each. Our proceeds were as follows: 
Amount of sales, ... £27" 3' 5 
From Eggs, 
" Chickens 
« Ducks, 
" Turkeys 
«• Geese, 
iOlGll 
1- 410 
13 G 
4 17- 9 
• 10- 5- 5 
i27- 3- 5 
30 Geese. 
Oat Meal, &c.j 
Expenses. 
£0-9-6 
3 00 
Net profit, . 
£17 1311 
" The profits are not so very small, but they would have been 
more had we succeeded better. I should say, for sucl a number 
as we have, the profits, upon an average, should be about ^£20 or 
je22 per annum." 
In " Baxster's Farmer's Library," there is a statement of what 
can be realized from pouUry. The individual from whom this 
statement was obtained, keeps only 5 fowls, whicli includes one 
cock. The expense of keeping, with produce of eggs, together 
with the profit for two separate years, were as follows: 
1830. 
4 bushels Barley, 
2 " ShariJS, 
i " Bran, - 
1 " Pollard, 
£01G-6 
51 
0- OSh 
0- 0-7 
£1 2 7i 
Number of Eggs 710, at Id. each, 21<J-2 
Net profit, 
£11G-7| 
1831. 
2^ bushels Barley, 
Oj gallons Sharps, 
7 '• Pollard, 
4 " Bran, ■ 
£0.110 
0- 3-6^ 
0- Oft 
0- 0-6 
£015 9^ 
Number of Eggs 449, at Id. each, 2 9-6- 
Net profit, 
£113 9J 
or nearly 8s. 9|d. in the year for each hen. 
