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herds were now at their maximum, since Sam 
had turned more than eight hundred pullets into 
the laying pens. I began to feel that the factory 
would soon begin to run full time and to make 
material returns for its equipment. It would, of 
course, be several years before the fruit would 
make much showing, but I am a patient ‘man, 
and could wait. 
