PROFITABLE EGG FARMING. 
Mr. Norton’s 280 Mr. Cox’s 100 
Rev. Mr. Buckingham’s Mr. Wood’s 11 White White Wy.ndottes Barred 
13 White P. Rock Hens. Wyandotte Pullets. and B. P. Rocks. Plymouth Rocks. 
No. ol Eggs Av. Price 
Val. of Eggs 
No. of Eggs 
October 
183 
31 
$4.72 
104 
November 
151 
36 
4.53 
207 
December 
169 
38 
5.35 
253 
January 
263 
34 
7.45 
181 
February 
264 
27 
5.94 
197 
March 
288 
19 
4.87 
253 
April 
258 
15 
3.22 
215 
May 
269 
17 
3.82 
145 
June 
240 
21 
4.20 
199 
July 
263 
24 
5.26 
206 
August 
223 
25 
6.63 
189 
September 
224 
28 
5.22 
167 
Totals 
2,795 
$61.21 
2,316 
Cost of 
food. . 
16.25 
Profit .. 
$44.96 
Profit 
per fowl. . 
$3.45 
Utah Ex. Station 
Utah Ex. Station 8 Late 8 Old Leghorn 
Hatched Leghorn Pullets Hens 
No. of Eggs Val. Eggs No. of Eggs Val. Eggs 
November 
0 
$0.00 
0 
$0.00 
December 
3 
.10 
0 
.06 
Januarv 
56 
1.58 
11 
.31 
February 
63 
1.42 
25 
.56 
March 
130 
2.06 
59 
.94 
April 
151 
1.88 
128 
1.60 
May 
153 
2.16 
132 
1.87 
June 
138 
2.41 
94 
1.64 
July 
135 
2.70 
65 
1.30 
August 
144 
3.00 
60 
1.25 
September 
112 
2.61 
68 
1.58 
October 
68 
1.75 
4 
.10 
Totals 
1,153 
$21.67 
648 
$11.21 
Cost of food 
10.00 
10.00 
Profit 
$11.67 
1.21 
Profit per 
fowl 
$1.45 
$0.15 
No. 4, of 100 Barred Plymouth Rock hens, 
shows an average of 179 (almost 180) eggs 
in a year. The best record for large num¬ 
bers of hens of which we know, is that in 
which Mr. Wyckoff shows an average of 196 
eggs apiece from 600 head of White Leghorns. 
Anyone who carefully considers the question 
of profit will concede that fowls that lay 175 to 
200 eggs apiece in a year, pay a good profit to 
Val. Eggs 
No. of Eggs 
Val. Eggs 
No. of Eggs 
Val. Eggs 
$ 2.68 
1,576 
$ 40.71 
793 
$20.49 
6.21 
3,179 
95.37 
1,140 
34.20 
8.01 
4,745 
150.29 
1,102 
34.91 
5.13 
5,437 
154.05 
1,951 
55.28 
4.44 
6,244 
140.49 
2,300 
51.75 
4.00 
5,650 
89.47 
1,592 
25.20 
2.68 
5,289 
66.12 
1,770 
22.12 
2.05 
4,620 
65.45 
1,911 
27.07 
3.48 
3,813 
66.73 
1,832 
32.06 
4.12 
3,848 
76.96 
1,406 
28.12 
3.93 
3,048 
63.50 
1,279 
26.64 
3.90 
2,542 
59.33 
901 
21.05 
50.63 
49,991 
1,068.47 
17,978 
$378.80 
13.75 
350.00 
125.00 
36.88 
718.47 
253.89 
3.35 
2.56 
2.53 
their owners, as a study of these tables will 
easily show, and if he compares the first four 
tables with the last two, he will easily 
understand why it is that the November, 
December and January eggs pay the richest 
profit. It is, of course, because of the highest 
prices of those months; and it is equally mani¬ 
fest, if one studies the matter closely, that those 
high prices are due to the scarcity of fresh eggs in 
those months; and that scarcity is due to the 
faet that the great bulk of the poultry kept on 
our farms is either old hens or late hatched pul¬ 
lets. The point of December and January- 
profits will be better understood if we compare 
the egg yield and profits of those months with 
those of April and May, of course with the same 
flock of 125 fowls, 12 of them one-year-old hens, 
and 113 pullets. 
No. of eggs 
Sold for 
Profit 
December, 
1,626 
$51.49 
$37.43 
January, 
2,068 
51.70 
37.64 
April, 
2,232 
27.50 
13.84 
May, 
2,332 
30.12 
16.06 
Here we see that either the December or Jan¬ 
uary egg yield paid more profit than April and 
May together. Everybody’s hens are laying in 
April and May, and prices are the lowest of the 
year; only the “bred for eggs and fed for eggs” 
birds are laying in November, December and 
January, and the prices of those months pay 
the “creamy” profits. 
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