Plan 3— 
Starting With 
Pullets 
How to Go 
About It 
hatching eggs or baby chicks—that is, they will be about 220 per cent, on 
your investment. 
Hundreds that would like to keep a flock of chickens in the back yard 
are deterred because they are disposed to magnify the labor and risk 
involved in hatching and raising chicks. Wincing under the necessity 
of paying fancy prices for eggs of doubtful quality, they would be glad to 
find relief by keeping hens of their own; but they dread the problems of 
incubating and brooding. 
The simple truth is that with good eggs, a good incubator, a good 
hover, and common sense, there is little or no risk, and a lot more recreation 
than labor, in hatching and raising chickens. 
Many a victim of the nerve-racking habit of carrying home at night 
the cares and worries of the day has found recreation and forgetfulness in 
“watching a hatch” and lending a hand to the chicks during the critical 
early days. Many a woman longing for something to break the pitiless 
monotony of her week-in-and-week-out grind has found a wonderful 
delight in “tending the eggs” and visiting with the animated little 
cotton balls that flash in and out of the hover. It is remarkable how 
little is sometimes required to change the current of a life. The satisfac¬ 
tion of “raising our own chicks” has proved a channel of happiness 
for hundreds. 
But the person doubtful of this need not remain at the mercy of others 
because of his doubts. He can buy pullets just coming into the laying 
age, keep them during their pullet year, and market them at the end of 
their laying season just before the first molt. 
Should you determine upon this course you will buy 12 February 
hatched pullets about July 1, and 12 April or May hatched pullets in 
September. 
As with both the other plans, your building will cost $40, and your 
drinking fountains, feed hoppers, etc., $3, a total of $43. 
The cost of your pullets will be $2 each, or $48 for the flock, and the 
expressage on them will be about $2.50. They will eat—in addition to 
your table scraps—about 5 cents worth each a month of grain food. The 
cost of feeding for the year will be, therefore, 24X12X.05, or $14.40. 
Counting on an egg yield of but 140 eggs from each bird for the pul¬ 
let year, and placing a value of but 3 cents apiece on the eggs, your 
return from this source will be 24X140X.03, or $100.80. 
Your birds will now be marketable at an average price of 80 cents each. 
Placing this value upon them, your meat return will be 24X.80, or $19.20. 
Adding $19.20 to $100.80, we get $120 as your income for the season. 
Summarizing and allowing 10 per cent, for depreciation on your house and 
equipment, which cost $43 and will last for years, we have: 
Receipts.$120 00 
Expense. 69.20 
Profit.$ 50 80—a little more than 136 per cent. 
The difference between 136 per cent, and 220 per cent, represents the 
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