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at everything and everybody connected with The 

 Corning Egg Farm. 



After a time the humor of the situation dawned 

 upon those who were being so adversely criticized. 

 The fact is, the critics were people who wanted to 

 gauge everything in the World by their own little yard 

 stick. They did not themselves know how to make 

 $6.41 per hen per year, and, therefore, they reasoned 

 it out that the man did not exist who could. One 

 fact entirely overlooked by these profound writers on 

 poultry subjects was that two dollars of this profit 

 was made by the sale of the hen at the end of ten 

 months of laying. 



In the last few years there have appeared in the 

 advertising columns of numerous publications, claims 

 by a man selling a book in which he asserts he made 

 $120.00 per hen, in twelve months, in a back-yard. 

 Another individual blossomed forth with a statement 

 of ten dollars and fifty odd cents profit per hen per 

 year, but these statements did not excite widespread 

 criticism. They were statements of men who were 

 doing a back-yard business, with from ten to twenty 

 hens, and were, therefore, simply looked upon as ridic- 

 ulous and not entitled to serious consideration. 



$6.41 Not Extravagant Claim 



But The Corning Egg Farm "$6.41 per hen, per 

 year " was not an extravagant claim, and the figures 

 showing just exactly how it had been accomplished 



