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$4223.00 PROFIT IN ONE YEAR 



Interior of 



section of one of my brooder houses. This one building has a 

 capacity of lo^ooo chicks a season. 



nineteenth day the eggs began to pip, so we realized that we had run the 

 machine just about right. At the end of the twentieth day the chicks 

 had begun to appear. At the end of the twenty-first day the hatch was 

 completed and all of us were proud as peacocks and happy as newlyweds 

 with the results. We had hatched eighty-nine lively little babies, and you 

 may be sure it was difficult to conjure up a more fascinating picture! 



By this time my brooder had arrived and it was made ready to receive 

 the little folk. I planned to be home on Saturday and Sunday, and found 

 a great deal of satisfaction in guiding the destinies of these little folk, 

 keeping their brooder sweet and clean, and in raising them in the "nurture 

 and admonition'' of the plans that seemed most practical to me. We raised 

 all but two of them. One died a natural death and the other was killed by 

 accident. 



After the first hatch was taken off, I reset the machine and hatched 

 ninety chicks. It was then early in July. The weather had then become 

 very warm, and they died off rapidly because I hadn't provided sufficient 



