CARE MAKES FOWLS PROFITABLE.
I have had a long experience in keeping and raising chickens. I now have 220, and ■ wish I had 500, for when hens are properly cared for they will pay. I had about 200 last year, and after the middle of March their average profit per day was 95 cents for 7 months, and if I could have had the whole care of them, I could have exceeded that by 25 cents per day. I had to entrust the care most of the time to boys, who took good care of them, but not as careful as an experienced man. I have tried many different kinds, and do not feel disposed to condemn any ; yet some are more profitable, if you want eggs for market, than others. Tho notion that a few fowls together will do so much better in proportion, is not altogether correct, any more than that a few sheep or cattle would do better on a piece of land than more. Ifc depends entirely on the quality and amount of food. It is with hens, perhaps more than any other animal, ' that a little extra care makes them profitable. With good care hens will do well,
but with extra good care they will do a great deal better. 1 hare 200 of the nicest looking hens I ever saw together j all will lay soon. They are now paying 50 cents per day more than their food costs. I buy all they cat, so I can easily tell.—Country Gentleman.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3171, 27 August 1881, Page 3
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