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acres in peanuts would fat all the hawgs they 

 is in the world!" 



That's something of the uncalculating state 

 of mind in which many of us approach the 

 chicken business. It takes so little to feed one 

 hen! If she's put to it she can rustle a living 

 for herself, without a cent of cost. Well, just 

 multiply that trifle a thousand times, and there 

 you are ! Doesn't it sound easy ? Not once in 

 a hundred times is any real thought given to 

 the business end. 



I should say that that easy spirit is account- 

 able for nine-tenths of the failures met by 

 townsmen who go at farming. They have such 

 a supreme confidence in Nature's vast generosi- 

 ties ! They can't find any good reason why Na- 

 ture should be stingy. A patch of ground, a 

 few seeds, a hoe and then fat abundance: 

 That's the usual mental formula. 



But that won't work. It's ridiculous to ex- 

 pect success to blow in upon a chance wind. 

 Whether in dairying, or seed-breeding, or meat 

 production, or chicken raising, or any other 

 branch of farm industry, success simply will 

 not come to reward free and easy, hit or miss 

 methods. 



We've had some of that to learn at Happy 



