Price per doz Income for Eggs per Extras month from hen day in New York 2000 layers --------------------------------------------- January .32 $ .30 $494.00 February .30 .29 404.00 March .62 .22 700.00 April .38 .19 350.00 May .44 .19 429.00 June .42 .18 377.00 July .34 .21 367.00 August .38 .22 429.00 September .21 .25 262.00 October .22 .28 316.00 November .18 .33 267.00 December .15 .32 246.00 --------- Total $4,641.00 The total income as figured will be $5,221. From this subtract the cost of production, and we have still nearly $3,000, which is to be combined item of wages and profit. We have entered no labor bill because this is to be a one-man farm, and with the assistance of the public hatchery and co-operative marketing association, which will send a wagon right to a man's door to gather the eggs, it is entirely feasible for one man to attend to two thousand hens. In the rush spring season other members of the family will have to turn out and help, or a man may be hired to attend the plowing and rougher work. This is a good handsome income, and yet the above price of the man's labor--it is only about one dollar per hen, which has always been the estimated profit of successful poultry keeping. As a matter of fact, this profit is seldom reached under the old system of poultry keeping, not because the above gross income cannot be reached, but because the expenses are greater. Under the present methods, with the exception of the rearing of the young chicks, one man can easily take care of three thousand hens. Indeed, practically the only work in their care is cultivating the ground and hauling around and dumping into hoppers, about two loads of feed per week.