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letters was from a man who was breeding 
them.” 
«“ They are ‘beauts,’ all of them, and I'll give 
them a good chance to spread themselves,” said 
Sam. 
« What percentage of hatch may we expect 
from purchased eggs?” 
“About sixty chicks out of every hundred 
eggs, I reckon.” 
“That would be doing pretty well, wouldn’t 
it? If we had good luck with the sixty chicks, 
how many would grow up?” 
“Fifty ought to.” 
“ Of these fifty, can we count on twenty-five 
pullets ?” 
« Yes.” 
« That’s what I was getting at. You think we 
might, by good luck, raise twenty-five pullets 
from each hundred eggs. I'll cut that in the 
middle and be satisfied with twelve, or even 
with ten. At that rate the two thousand eggs 
that cost $200 will give me two hundred pullets 
to begin the egg-making next November. That’s 
not enough; we ought to raise just twice that 
number. I'll spend as much more on eggs to be 
hatched by the middle of April or the first of 
May, and then we can reasonably expect to go 
into next winter with four hundred pullets. They 
will cost the farm a dollar apiece, but the farm 
will have four hundred cockerels to sell at fifty 
cents each, which will materially reduce the cost.” 
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