14 $4223.00 PROFIT IN ONE YEAR 



jump out of the ground to meet the warm rays of the Summer sun. 

 Midsummer found us enjoying luxuries of our bountiful harvest of fresh 

 vegetables from our own garden. It was quite a contrast to what a city 

 man had been accustomed. It was not only a crop of good vegetables, 

 but a crop of gladness and joy as well. Our city friends envied our 

 good fortune. My wife could prepare an excellent meal from the 

 garden, with a few nice springers added to the bill of fare. A little 

 later our flowers blossomed forth in all the colors of the rainbow. The 

 next season we enjoyed a generous <crop of red raspberries and straw- 

 berries. Two years later our plum trees began to bear. The next year 

 the peach trees bloomed out in their superb style and joined the plum 

 trees in giving us a nice lot of delicious fruit. The next year the 

 cherry trees began to bear. 



Giving Up My Road Business 



The five years' experience directly preceding the year in which I 

 made a net income of $4,223.00 from chickens on a town lot, caused me 

 to sever my connections with the concern for whom I was traveling, 

 and go into the chicken business in earnest and not as a "side line," 

 which it had been up to that time. It took me a great many months to 

 make up my mind regarding this change, because I have many warm 

 friends among the people I visit and it almost seemed as though — so 

 firm had become our friendship — that everywhere I set my foot was 

 "home, sweet home." And of course after so long a term — travelling 

 the same territory for twenty years for the one house — I had a mighty 

 good business and enjoyed a fairly satisfactory salary, as salaries were 

 in those days, and I had the friendship and confidence of several of 

 the largest merchants in my line. 



When I resigned my position on the road, I was not only "passing 

 up" the rewards of twenty years' hard work but was also losing the 

 social visits to all my old acquaintances on the road, and what was 

 worse still, was the severing of my pleasant business relations with my 

 company. In the long years I was with them there wasn't anything that 

 ever came up to disturb our pleasant relations. They were very good 

 to me and I appreciated it. In fact, all the employees were treated with 

 consideration, and it seemed like one big, happy family. It surely did 

 seem like leaving home to sever my ties with this firm. My chickens 

 were demanding more of my time, and I was really forced to give up 

 my road position or my chickens. I chose the former and sent my 



