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letters was from a man who was breeding 

 them." 



"They are < beauts,' all of them, and I'll give- 

 them a good chance to spread themselves," said 

 Sam. 



" What percentage of hatch may we expect 

 from purchased eggs ? " 



" About sixty chicks out of every hundred 

 eggs, I reckon." 



" That would be doing pretty well, wouldn't 

 it ? If we had good luck with the sixty chicks, 

 how many would grow up ? " 



"Fifty ought to." 



"Of these fifty, can we count on twenty-five 

 pullets ? " 



" Yes." 



" That's what I was getting at. You think we 

 might, by good luck, raise twenty-five pullets 

 from each hundred eggs. I'll cut that in the 

 middle and be satisfied with twelve, or even 

 with ten. At that rate the two thousand eggs 

 that cost 1200 will give me two hundred pullets 

 to begin the egg-making next November. That's 

 not enough ; we ought to raise just twice that 

 number. I'll spend as much more on eggs to be 

 hatched by the middle of April or the first of 

 May, and then we can reasonably expect to go 

 into next winter with four hundred pullets. They 

 will cost the farm a dollar apiece, but the farm 

 will have four hundred cockerels to sell at fifty 

 cents each, which will materially reduce the cost;" 



