Show produce good pullets at reasonable expense at the pennsylvania state college pullets were raised to maturity nt at nta a cost of per bird after deducting the returns from cockerels cockerell cocker els most of the chicks were legli orns valued at twenty cents each th the e cost of production included feed and coal labor at thirty five cents per hour and interest at G per cent on the investment in equipment feed and chicks the pullets were also charged with wl th depreciation on the houses at a t 5 per cent and the depreciation on the equipment at 10 per cent undoubtedly the results in brooding and the mortality rate were very ery satisfactory to produce good pullets at the laying ige age at a cost of per bird many poultry men sell leghorn pullets at eight weeks of uge age at about 1 each at oliree months of age they are worth about to each pullets that are ready to lay are seldom sold by poultry men for less than 2 to WO S 25 0 each unless they have a surplus |