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Show What Pullets Cost Records on 46,121 pullets, kept during a period of three years in six leading poultry producing counties in California, give the net cash cost of raising pullets to six months of age as 70 cents. When labor, depreciation, de-preciation, and Interest on Investment Invest-ment were added, the net cost of raising each pullet Increased to 99 cents. The total cost was $1.30, but there was an Income of 33 cents from sale of cockerels and pullets, of three cents from sale of eggs, and a miscellaneous Income of one cent. These figures, according to L. D. Sanborn, assistant farm adviser ad-viser In Los Angeles county, were gathered by the agricultural extension exten-sion service of the University of California. Ixis Angeles Times. |