34 HOW I MADE $10,000 IN ONE YEAR 



where it would be close at hand, large enough to brood 

 1,200 chicks. He had money enough to provide house- 

 room for and to raise 500 pullets. We advised him to 

 brood one lot in January and another in March, and to 

 try for 500 pullets in each lot, with the idea of selling 

 half of each lot when they were about three months old. 

 It is quite as easy to brood 1,200 chicks as 600; the work 

 and expense for fuel is no greater ; and there is no trouble 

 in disposing of three months' old pullets at a good price. 



He followed this plan, and did so well with the January 

 lot both as to the number he raised and the price he ob- 

 tained for them that he was able to retain the March 

 hatch entirely, giving him 750 pullets instead of the 500 

 he thought was the maximum he could finance. He did 

 the heavy part of the work mornings and evenings, his 

 wife caring for the chicks during the day. His laying 

 houses, following ours in plan, he built in separate sec- 

 tions, each 16x16 feet. He is using the dirt floor. When 

 he gets ready to move to a larger place of his own he can 

 load these houses on low-slung moving trucks, set them 

 where he wants them, fit them together, and he will have 

 his long, continuous laying-house. He did all of his 

 building work alone and unaided, putting in his time after 

 he came home from his regular work. This is going after 

 it strenuously, but it is the spirit that succeeds. 



There has been considerable discussion in our home as 

 to who deserves the greater credit for his success — the 

 man or his wife. (She was caring for three young chil- 

 dren at the time). I give the man the greater credit — 

 he picked his wife. But this case shows what can be 

 done by people of the right kind. 



