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much. So suppose you get only one hundred 

 chicks that will live through to maturity. 

 That's fair enough, isn't it? 



Probably half of those chickens will be roost- 

 ers ; so you'll have fifty hens for starting your 

 second year's work. That's fifty for one. 

 With that rate of increase you'll come to the 

 beginning of your third year with 2,500 hens. 

 You'll have disposed of the cockerels at the 

 end of last season, of course, when they 

 weighed say an average of six pounds apiece 

 15,000 pounds. At ten cents a pound that 

 would give you $1,500. Income has begun al- 

 ready, you see! 



That same fifty-fold increase will give you 

 125,000 hens at the end of your third season. 

 We're not counting the old hens, you notice; 

 we'll leave them out of the reckoning entirely, 

 so as not to complicate the figures. By the 

 same token, you'll have fifty times as many 

 cockerels this year as last, and fifty times as 

 much money for them. That's $75,000! 

 That's only three years from the start! And 

 from just one hen, mind you! And you have 

 125,000 hens left for your fourth year's breed- 

 ing. 



At the end of the fourth year you'll have 



