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Show Good Laying Hen Makes Money for Her Owner Take 84 pounds of grain plus one good laying hen and you have 12 dozen eggs. With grain selling at one and a half cents per pound and eggs selling sell-ing 30 cents per dozen this means a value of $3.60 for the grain, or a profit of $2.32 over the cost of the feed ; or, selling grain at a price of $4.28 per hundredweight. Here are some more figures. The hen which lays only 25 eggs causes a loss of 64 cents over the cost of feed for one year; the hen i which lays 50 eggs causes a loss of one cent ; the hen which lays 100 eggs creates a profit of $1.25; the hen which lays 150 eggs produces a profit of $2.49; while the hen which lays 200 eggs brings profit of $3.74. Watch the danger line' and get rid of the boarders. |