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‘Prt RURAL NEW* YORKER 
January 14, 1922 
Tree-ConAeys Poultry Book 
Cost of Raising Pullets 
I wish to take exception to cost of 88 
cents each for six-mouths-old It. I. Red 
pullets, as figured out by F. B. 1 lodge 
on page 1488. Mr. Hodge makes the 
same mistake that thousands of other 
poultrymen make every year in figuring 
their costs; he leaves out overhead. If 
lie will take the trouble to figure lie will 
find that ii amounts to about the same 
as his chick, egg, coal and feed cost of 
88 cents, so that he will have a cost for 
his six-months-old pullets of twice 88 
cents, or $1.70, ns actual cost of the 
pullet. Now how much profit should be 
added to the cost of raising the pullet? 
Different people will have different ideas, 
but I think that 25 per cent is not too 
; little, or I t cents, which added to the 
;$1.70 makes a selling price of $2.20, 
which is not far from what Mr. TIodge 
paid Inst Fall. In case Mr. Hodge or 
anyone else does not understand what we 
mean by overhead, would elucidate as 
follows: 
Cost of time and labor for six months 
in earing for Mr. Hodge’s 1,2.70 chicks. 
The chicks certainly did not care for 
themselves, and some one had to devote 
many hours at labor. We would have to 
pay here at least 40 cents an hour for 
such work, and this item must be figured 
out accurately and charged as an item of 
cost. 
If Mr. Ilodge rents his place he must 
charge a fair proportion of his rent to 
the cost of the 1,250 chicks, and if he 
owns bis place he must charge a fair 
proportion of taxes, insurance and 10 
per cent on capital invested in plant and 
equipment, such as buildings, land, etc., 
as it is not right that this capital so in¬ 
vested should not receive a fair return on 
its investment. Ten per cent deprecia¬ 
tion on plant, buildings, etc., should be 
charged, as that is allowed by the Gov¬ 
ernment in figuring income tax. and it is 
only proper business to make any article 
raised or madp pay 10 per cent per an¬ 
num depreciation on the plant and build¬ 
ings required for its use. 
Mr. Hodge sold his cockerels, and a 
proper charge should he made for the 
work and cxppnse in selling, as the cock¬ 
erels did not sell themselves, and who¬ 
ever sold them should receive a profit for 
his work in so doing; if they were adver¬ 
tised. that should also he charged in as 
eosl. 
On every farm or poultry yard there 
are different items that enter into cost in 
one that do tint exist on another, and the 
only way to get at the true cost is to see 
that the cost includes everything done 
and used in the work of raising the fowls, 
and not to have anything done for noth¬ 
ing. Capital invested must he reimbursed 
for its work, and labor given by the 
proprietor fir his wife or children must 
he reimbursed just as much as though ii 
had been hired from outside sources. 
Taxes, insurance, water, light, fuel and 
depreciation must all he included to get 
at the real cost, and when that is once 
done, we will know how much must be 
added to sell at a reasonable profit over 
investment. F. M. PRESCOTT. 
New Jersey. 
Subscribers’ Exchange 
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3000 BREEDERS ON FREE FARM RANGE 
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"'el I" "i’ .re »:! en h, Now hooking order- for 
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! POT'LTK Y FARM 
I was interested in F. E. Hedge’s fig¬ 
uring the post of raising pullets printed 
on p.'ige 1488; 88 cents seemed remark¬ 
ably low. I wish I could raise them as 
cheaply. I also keep account of what it 
costs me to raise pullets, and will give 
my figures. I hatch my own chicks, hut 
cannot do it, counting all expenses, any 
cheaper than 20 cents each that early. 
March 18. 
1140 chick* (ft 20c... $128.00 
*. 78x88 inches; 
White border; 
■> per i air; auto 
12. EMERSON 
WJWWWWWWs 
FOR. SALE One Munson, single disc steel mill, 
with corn shelter, elevator*, bran separator 
nnd graders, alt in Hret-ehiss condition; to lie 
sold at u bargain; Just right for a medium or 
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Keep Chickens? 
c»'vM-year<o!d Poultry Paper.- tclla how to ae 
lect. breed, bouse and feed SUCCESSFULLY, 
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Wallingford, Conn. 
gray virgin wool kneecaps, 
tncaurre around the knee: 
“locking* SI .25 up. MARY 
ringle Street, Kingston, Pa. 
Ren I on range.. 
t'pkeep of eoops and equipment 
Labor. 2'j hours per day (tr 25c 
Receipts from broilers. 
Total cost of pullets. 
t Incubator and Brooder 
made of California 
Redwood. Incubator 
rml with nsbeston __ 
galvanized iron. —, 
o walls, nursery, jr\ 
inks in incubntor ami <flE] 
30 days' trial— money L 
AND HATCHING EGGS 
S. C. White Leghorns 
From Cornell Certified Breeding Stock. 
SHANNON FARMS, Eastport, L. I., N. Y. 
ry tractor, in good running 
liable offer. WALTER D. 
There were about 200 pullets that I 
could have sold for 82 each. Thus those 
pullets, all S. (’. White Leghorns, cost 
about $1.75 each, and 25 cents a head 
is not too much profit on them. A few 
other items, such as disinfectants, spray 
material, etc., are balanced by the eggs 
they laid before they were six months old. 
Three items in this account may need 
t.O he explained for people* who figure as 
Mr, Hodge has. “Rent on range, $10.” 
is the actual cost of the land of a neigh¬ 
bor on which I have in.v colony coops. 
“Upkeep of coops and equipment, $20,” 
is the overhead charge on I wo brooder 
houses and seven colony coups pills what 
it costs annually for chicken wire. 
Perhaps the moat astonishing item is 
$112 50 for my labor, but if f had hired 
it done it would have cost ”0 cents an 
hour instead of 25; some poultrymen 
estimate their time at f!0 cents an hour. 
The day when farmers work for nothing 
hits passed. T. D. If. 
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260 EGG INCUBATOR AND BROODER $26 75 
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Mountain purr buckwheat honey, 
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S. C. WHITE LEGHORHS 
lw.il customer bought <~1,t.-U.i. mined over 1,000 |iol- 
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EDMONDS’ POULTRY 
ACCOUNT BOOK 
The best we know. Complete in 
one hook. Easily kept. Net re¬ 
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Price $1.00 To Canada $1.25 
For Sale by 
The Rural New-Yorker 
333 tV. 30th Street New York City 
•HI naged chock full of information abont the feeding and 
rearing of thick*, colling of hens, oir Telia how to !n«?p 
chieko/19 healthy und huw to make them pay. Whether 
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S C. Brown Leghorn. dOO hens, mostly yearlings, |ml- 
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LEE’S LICE KILLER 
