OPPORTUNITY FOR INDIVIDUAL 89 



A certain chicken farmer in New Hampshire 

 buys the unfinished fowl of his neighbors, fat- 

 tens them, and ships them to market. He fig- 

 ures his profit at 55% on the operation. He is 

 a specialist and reaps the reward of knowledge 

 properly applied. This same farmer sold his 

 fowl for 24 cents in the local market while he 

 was buying from his neighbors for 14 cents. 

 Probably the very housewives who were selling 

 him unfattened chickens were buying back their 

 own fowls after they had been fattened for a 

 fortnight. Imagine the Standard Oil Company 

 permitting a leak like this ! 



The story of a New England orchard in the 

 making illustrates several of the points which 

 we have discussed. The orchard was too large 

 for one man and not large enough for two. It 

 needed a team of horses but could not keep them 

 busy. It took several years for these facts to 

 reach the consciousness of the new city owner. 

 This man had read that "cows did not pay," 

 and so banished them from his calculations, un- 

 til two or three winters of idleness forced the 

 matter upon his consideration. When be fig- 



