Cost and Profit.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 235, 31 December 1887, Page 8

Cost and Profit.

Some men, when about to embark in an enterprise, whether large or small, always alt down and count the cost. This is the safe method, and in many instances saves a deal of disappointment. Even in so small a matter as building a sin ail poultry house, and purchasing a few fowls, there should be an understanding of the cost and the probable income, The questions should come up : How much does it cost to keep a fowl per annum ? How much will one produce in the same time ? Others have ! travelled the road before, kept count and measure, and have given the balance sheet to the publisher. These accounts differ of necessity. Size and activity hdve much to do with this. A large bird will consume more than a small one generally, but not in proportion to the size, for the small one may have great activity in the generative functions, and every one knows that there is much nutriment in eggs, and the small fowl must eat to supply the material. A nen that lays 150 eggs in a year will need to eat considerable more corn than one that lays only 100 in the same time. Fowls, large and small, as they average, consume from one bushel to one and onehalf bushels of corn per year, or an equivalent in other food. In estimating what will be produced, the beginner has a great number of statements from which to draw his conclusions. Only the 'men who have made large profits make their reports, but if 4 they tell how they do it their accounts are not worthless. A hen that Will produce 150 eggs in a year is a good hen, and one that lays ten dozen is not a bad one.