Show BETTES POULTRY PAYS panny wise and pound foolish la Is the charge often hurled at the american farmer by students of economics they canted that in an effort to be thrifty he be often follows what appears to be the cheaper course only to discover that penny wise policy Is costing him money the poultry flock of the average farmer furnishes a good illustration of this figures from the he united state department ot of agriculture reveal that the average average farm hen produces about 70 eggs a year when poultry experts agree that a hen must lay 90 eggs before it pays tor for the teed feed it eats ninety eggs at an average of a dozen will bring revenue of about two dollars it costs that much to i feed and cars care for a hen tor for one year until the farm flock shows allows a higher average than 90 eggs to a hen the farmer la Is not profiting on his hia chickens the reason tor for the 70 egg average on farms is due of course to lak lack of care in securing good stock fir the flocks and in proper feeding and housing since a high producing hen and a ilow low producing hen consume about abou the same amount of teed feed it Is easy to see that the lazybones Is a poor investment too often this poor stock Is perpetuated on the farm because the farmer or his wife keeps using eggs from their own pour poor stock to set under tinder heir liens hens better stock and better care cara are necessary to convert the farm poultry losses of the average farm profits |