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herds were now at their maximum, since Sam 

 had turned more than eight hundred pullets into 

 the laying pens. I began to feel that the factory 

 would soon begin to run full time and to make 

 material returns for its equipment. It would, of 

 course, be several years before the fruit would 

 make much showing, but I am a patient man, 

 and could wait. 



