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cannot help making good money. I do not 
think I have paid for food used for my fowls in 
any one year more than $500; grits, shells, meat 
meal, and oil meal will cover the list. I do not 
wish to induce any man or woman to enter this 
business on account of the glowing statements 
which these pages contain. I am ideally situ- 
ated. Iam near one of the best markets for fine 
y. food; I can sell all the eggs my hens will lay at 
high prices; food costs the minimum, for it 
comes from my own farm; I utilize skim-milk, 
the by-product from another profitable industry, 
to great advantage; and I had enough money to 
carry me safely to the time of product. In other 
words, I could build my factory before I needed 
to look to it for revenue. I donot claim that this 
is the only way, but I do claim that it is the 
way for the fore-handed middle-aged man who 
wishes to change from city to country life with- 
out financial loss. Younger people with less 
means can accomplish the same results, but they 
must offset money by time. The principle of 
the factory farm will hold as well with the one as 
with the other. 
To intensify farming is the only way to get 
the fat of the land. The nations of the old 
world have nearly reached their limit in food 
production. They are purchasers in the open 
market. This country must be that market; 
and it behooves us to look to it that the market 
be well stocked. There is land enough now and 
