Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 44, DeMotte, Jasper County, 16 March 1933 — What Pullets Cost [ARTICLE]

What Pullets Cost

Records on 46,121 pullets, kept during a period of three years in six lead ing poultry producing counties in Cali fornia, give the net cash cost of rais ing pullets to six months of age as 70 cents. When labor, depreciation, and interest on investment were added, the net cost of raising each pullet increased to 99 cents. The total cost was $1.36, but there was an income of 33 cents from sale of cockerels and pullets, of three cents from sale of eggs, and a miscellaneous income of one cent. These tigures. according to L. D. Sanborn, assistant farm adviser in Los Angeles county, were gathered by the agricultural extension service of the University of California.--Los Angeles Times.