CHAPTER XXV 



$6.41 Per Hen Per Year 



Coming Method and Strain Enabling Others to 



Better $6.41 



The figures at the head of this chapter have become 

 famous, and, perhaps, in the way of small things, rep- 

 resent as great a bone of contention as has been squab- 

 bled over for many a year. And yet there really was 

 nothing so extraordinary in the profit. It repre- 

 sented a large amount of careful work and study, a 

 keen business administration, a careful looking after 

 of all the little details, the preserving of all by-products 

 and selling them at a figure which was actually under 

 their true value, as was proven in later years by better 

 prices obtained. 



For instance, the fertilizer made on the Farm has 

 been so handled that its returns to the owners are 

 much greater than when these figures were given to 

 the public. The Corning Egg Farm was very much 

 criticised in numerous statements made in the differ- 

 ent papers throughout the country as to the authen- 

 ticity of these figures, and, to put it in clear Anglo- 

 Saxon, many writers indulged quite freely in the word 

 so much used by one of the distinguished Presidents 

 of the United States, and threw the lie indiscriminately 



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