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rearers, fatteners, and marketers of eggs, they 

 do make a profit. We can see this from the 

 pubHshed accounts of the Society. But as 

 individual poultry-keepers, do they make birds 

 pay by selling their eggs and chickens to the 

 Society ? It is very difficult to get properly 

 kept accounts from the members. I am 

 satisfied, however, after interviewing several 

 of them, that poultry-keeping does pay, and 

 it sometimes pays in an unlooked-for way. 



A member told me that he ran a number 

 of birds on three acres of land, accumulating 

 a great deal of poultry manure, which he 

 carefully stored. He bought a field of eight 

 acres, which had been rented at £8 an acre. 

 He then bought for a small sum many loads 

 of roadside scrapings, which he mixed with the 

 poultry manure, giving his field a dressing 

 with this mixture. The first year he took a 

 heavy crop of hay off* this meadow, and the 

 next year he let it to a farmer for 30s. an acre, 

 thus adding, he contends, a capital value of 

 £100 to his investment. 



The Street Society has not, I am glad to 

 say, been content to rest on its oars as an 

 isolated successful society. It has taken a 

 leading part in the formation of the British 



