Show good laying hen makes money for her owner take 84 pounds of grain plus one good laying hen and you have 12 dozen eggs with grain selling at one and a half cents per pound and eggs selling 30 cents per dozen this means a value of for the grain or a profit of over the cost of the feed or selling grain at a price of per hundredweight here are some more figures the hen ben which lays only 25 eggs causes a loss of 64 cents over the cost of feed for one year the hen which lays GO eggs causes a loss of one cent the hen which lays eggs creates a profit of the hen which lays eggs produces a profit of while the hen which lays eggs brings profit of watch the danger line and get rid of the boarders |