Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1871 — Hens and Cows. [ARTICLE]

Hens and Cows.

A subscriber asks how many hers equal the profits of an average cow per year? That depends very much, perhaps chiefly, upon the management. Some farmers manage to get a profit of fifty, and in rare cases nearly a hundred dollars per cow, while others scarcely make a cow pay. Some poultry men and many boys who devote their time and attention to it make more than a dollar per hen, while others hardly do more than “make both ends meet. So you see it is hard telling. Taking the average of fair management we should say about twenty-five. But with first-rate management of hens and poor management of cows it would take a less number,. With first-rate treatment of cows and neglect of the hens it would take that many more. —Massachusetts Ploughman.

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