| Show tidy profit to in poultry raising best records in illinois illino is show average gain of on each hen chickens may beal s side ide line on some terms farms but 1 aa illinois farmers who cooperated last year with the exten slon rion service of 0 the college of agriculture university of illinois in keeping records on their flocks realized total profits of from their poultry raising according to lo a summary of their records prepared by john van dervort poultry extension specialist receipts and expenses Ex pences teetotal the total labor income which the farmers realized from their poultry amoun amounted teI to 54 cash receipts from eggs alone amounted to TO while the sale of market poultry brought tin ID cash receipts to talling 42 the total cash receipts from au all sources amounted to the bill for chicken feed on the record farms amounted to there were chickens kept on the record farms while eggs were laid this was dozen eggs cases or a little more that than 28 carloads of egg ti of cases ea each ch the object of the flock record broj eat under which the records were kept Is to point out success promoting practices in farm poultry raising in th this is c connection the summary of the records brings out some striking con erasts between the best one oneth third lid of the records and the poorest one third in the case of egg production per hen for instance the average for that third of the records dhigh were best was egan eggi a lien hen while the average for tile the poorest one third was eggs a hen or one and one half dozens a year less with eggs at 30 cents a dozen the average income from the liens hens in tile the poorest one third of the records therefore would average 45 cents less a year than that from the hens in the best one third of the records ann lenort pointed out culled flocks best farmers who M lio turned in the best one third of the records culled out 53 per cent of their hens while those who turned in the poorest records culled only 40 per cent only 11 per cent of the hens died on the farms making in akin 9 up the best one third while 14 per cent died on tile the poorest one third perhaps the most striking difference between the best one third and the poorest one third of the records was in pola point of profits from each hen farms from which the best records come came realized an average profit of 2 45 on each hei heh while that one third of the farms which had the poorest t records realized an average profit of six tenths of one cent on each lien hen the best one third showed meat receipts of lep i 1 lien in contrast to 88 cents fr i tile the poorest one third while ltv V feed cost per hen on tile the best farm records reco ads was as compared to 1 09 on the poor est one ene third in other words it cost the farmers who had the poorest records about the same for foi fed as it did those who had the best records van dervort said farmers who turned in that one third of the records which were best realized an average of return for each hour of their labor while those who turned in the poorest records got only 25 cents tor for each hour or their labor close culling did its full share shae to ward boosting the profus of the farm ers era who turned in the best one third of the records believes these best flocks paid 11 profit of a hen ben while the poorest flocks paid less than one cent a hen in the best flocks 53 per cent of the original number of chickens were vere culled out and disposed of during the ye year ar while in the poorest locks flocks only 40 per cent of the lie birds were culled |
