280 HAPPY HOLLOW FARM 



We'll go into it with money enough in hand to 

 see us through, so we may put some "pep" into 

 the marketing of our stuff; and from that 

 foundation we shall build as large a business 

 as we are able to take care of. 



I've been running on quite a bit about chick- 

 ens. I've done it on purpose, because I have 

 never seen just this statement of the matter in 

 print, and because a fair understanding may 

 save other folks many a disappointment. 



Here's the way it stands, as we see it: If 

 you're figuring on the chicken business, don't 

 waste time in figuring over the fabulous rate 

 of increase that's theoretically possible. If 

 you'll make right provision for it, increase will 

 come fast enough. That will be the least of 

 your frets. If you don't make right provision, 

 well in advance of the actual increase, you'll 

 be doomed to failure. 



Figure carefully on practical ways and 

 means, and not at all on the fairy-story end of 

 things. Then you'll be reasonably certain to 

 win. 



A couple of years ago I was down South, 

 riding through an isolated farming district that 

 lay far from railway. One day I stopped for 

 dinner at a farmhouse, and of course we talked 



