Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — My Year’s Profit. [ARTICLE]

My Year’s Profit.

K(y poultry account for 1891 was *nt>t large, but it shows that poultry will pay for itself if cared for in the right way. The feed cost $27.04, and they were credited with eggs sold to the amount of 6.79, chickens 26.25, eggs use'd 26.53 and 5 bbls manure at 75c, 3.75, making a total income of 63.29, and leaving a profit of 36.25 The account does not include the chickens eaten, and values the eggs eaten at 25c per doz. I have kept 18 hens most of the time. My hens arc Barred Plymouth Rocks, which I think cannot be excelled for all pur poses. It took me only about2o minutes each day to take care of them, or three hours a week, which gave me 20c an hour. I sftt 82 eggs and hatched out 78 chicks. My hens laid ]605 eggs, or 133$ doz.. an average of 89 1-6 eggs per hen. The hens were kept shut up from April to September and Jet out a few minutes before dusk two nights a week. I , change cockerels every year and thirile this is the reason the eggs hatch so well.— W. H. Miller, Jr., Westchester Co., New York.