This means that they will get more wheat and oats than corn, and more bran and middlings than corn meal. I feed the grain morning and night, and the mash at noon. The mash may be fed either wet or dry. I have tried it both ways but I like to feed it dry fully as well for two reasons: First the hens cannot gobble it up so fast and all get an equal share; second, the hens lay just as well and it saves labour.
Feed is expensive here and it cost me three dollars and thirty-nine cents for one hundred pounds of both kinds. I think I shall continue to feed it till I find something better, and I would recommend it to any one who desires a good, satisfactory feed.
My poultry record for one year is as follows:
| POULTRY ACCOUNT | |||
| DR. | CR. | ||
| Jan., feed | $3.15 | Jan., eggs | $2.63 |
| March, feed | .24 | Jan., roaster | .75 |
| April, shells | .20 | Feb., eggs | 2.28 |
| May, feed | 1.85 | March, eggs | 1.88 |
| June, feed | 1.26 | April, eggs | 1.41 |
| July, feed | 1.28 | May, eggs | 1.96 |
| Aug., feed | 3.38 | June, eggs | 2.32 |
| Oct., feed | 1.24 | July, eggs | 1.85 |
| Nov., feed | 1.24 | Aug., eggs | .63 |
| ——— | Sept., eggs | 1.12 | |
| Total | $13.84 | Sept., roaster | .65 |
| Oct., eggs | 1.32 | ||
| Oct., premium | .75 | ||
| Nov., eggs | .38 | ||
| ——— | |||
| $19.93 | |||
| ——— | |||
| Profit | $6.09 | ||
Two of my hens died during the first year, leaving six, hence these six paid a profit of one dollar and one and one half cent each, above cost of feed.
Leslie E. Card
HOW ONE YOUNG WOMAN MADE A START WITH POULTRY
We had long dreamed of a country home, my mother and I—of a place where living expenses would be lessened and which would be pleasant during the summer for my sisters, who teach eight months of the year—a place where we could add materially to our income by keeping chickens.
After discarding the idea of buying near New York City, because of the higher value of land and greater cost of living, we chose a place of twelve acres on the edge of an aristocratic old town in western New York. Being within the corporation limits we have water and sewer connections, hardware and lumber delivered (which is quite an item when one is building poultry houses); and, best of all, the expressman comes for all eggs and poultry. A woman intending to go into the poultry business will certainly find such a location a great advantage over being farther from town. The increase in taxes is slight. The cost of expressage is, of course, greater than if we had located near New York City, but grain is cheaper.
We purchased the place in the fall to have possession the following March. During the winter, I took the three months' Poultry Course at Cornell University. The course is comprehensive and very practical. Beside learning the principles of poultry husbandry, I gained confidence and courage.