HOW ONE. MAN'S PLANT GREW. 



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Nut many miles from Bo>toii there Is a small farm which the present owner purchased aliout 

 a Jozen or less \ears iigi). He hinl money enough to pay for the farm, make the old house 

 hai)ital)le, buy a small flock of hens, and have a few dollars left for an emergency. For a few 

 years he continued working at his occupation. He saved what he could. The few hens earned 

 something; when he had money enough ahead to l)uy material for a house he bought it. Then 

 at such odd times as he could he put up the house, at the same time planning to have increased 

 his stock so that when the house was ready he had extra pullets to fill it. He planted fruit 

 trees, and seeded down such parts of the farm as were suitable to grass. He kept a co^v or 

 two. Everything was made to contribute something to the total income. It did not take as 

 long to get money ahead for the second liouse as for the first. When the money was ready the 

 material was bought, and the bouse built at his convenience. By this time his farm was taking 

 more of his time, the outside work was gradually reduced as home demands became more 

 imperative, and soon his farm was taking all of his time, and he was miiklng a living from it. 



A Town Lot Poultry Plant at Wdhdcy Hills, Mass. 

 He has now house capacity for 800 to 900 hens, keeps several cows, and makes a comfortable 

 li\ing and a little more. You need not drive far from his place in any direction to see the 

 wrecks of poultry ventures emliarked much more auspiciously than his. He i^ in no sense of 

 the word a fancier. He is even indifl'erent to thoroughbred stock, using mostly good grades, 

 liut his poultry pays. 



In that section of the old Bay State celebrated immng poultrymen as headquarters for fine 

 market poultry, two brothers began some fifteen or sixteen years ago to try -to grow winter 

 chickens. One, who was employed in a factory, had a little money saved up. He bought 

 some incubators, contracted for some eggs, and the other brother wentto woik to see what 

 he could do with them. Hatches were discouraging. Hundreds of eggs .went through the 

 machines without giving any suljstantial supply of chicks. The greater part of a hundred 

 dollars had been expended in eggs, and the man who -was running the machines wanted to 

 quit. He thought it was no use. But the capitalist of the pair insisted on sticking to it as 



