Show depreciation labor and mortality cost of E eggs the three big items in the cost of producing the worth or more of 0 eggs that illinois farmers sell every year are feed depreciation which includes mortality and labor according to records which twenty poultry men kept during the past year in operation cooperation co with the extension service of the college of agriculture university of illinois any flock owner who cuts down on these items therefore will be going a long way toward getting a wider margin of net return out of the cash that he be receives for his eggs it Is pointed out by H 11 alp poultry extension specialist of the college probably the best opportunity to reduce feed cost Is to improve the average egg production of each hen in the flock as the good layers eat but little more feed than the mediocre ocre layers too many flocks carry about 20 per cent t defaulters default ers hens that start laying and then quit and it Is this class of birds which runs up the feed cost of a dozen eggs |