XIII 



DID anybody ever entice you into trying to 

 figure yourself rich at the chicken business? 

 If not, then you're the hundredth man. Even 

 if you aren't thinking seriously of going into 

 chickens, you really ought to try that figuring 

 sometime, just for the education you'll get out 

 of it. 



Come on, now; get out paper and pencil. 

 You won't need much paper. The back of an 

 old envelope will do, if you crowd the lines up 

 a little. It isn't at all a long job. 



You begin with just one hen. That's all 

 you'll need for a starter. Most likely your 

 ideas are more liberal than that. Perhaps that 

 sort of a beginning strikes you as too trifling 

 and slow. But just wait till you see what that 

 one hen will do for you. She's certainly going 

 to surprise you. 



Of course, since the beginning is so modest, 

 she'd better be a good hen one of the two 

 hundred-egg kind you read about. She'll be 



264 



