Eggs the Year Round From Table 
Scraps 
How Idle Land and Table Waste 
Can Be Turned Into Dollars 
F EW subjects have been so much discussed as that of raising chickens. 
There are grounds for supposing that the first thing Adam and 
Eve did after their investigation of the forbidden brought up the 
problem of the high cost of living was to turn to the hen for a solution. 
And there are equally good grounds for believing that the hen made 
good. 
As a matter of fact, the universal notion that “there’s money in 
chickens’’ has endured through all the ages simply because it has a solid 
foundation in truth. The hen has no special faculties for fooling all the 
people all the time. Her popularity has increased with the years because 
when other things combined to make living hard, her merry cackle—and 
often her expiring gasp—has sounded the note of relief. 
The person doubtful of whether vacant lot or back-yard poultry can. 
be made to pay will do well to question: 
Why are so many in the business? Is it from pure philanthropy that 
the other fellow is eager to supply me with eggs and chickens? Has he 
no other concern than to serve society by protecting against worry me 
and the others that eat his eggs every day and his roosters and elderly hens 
when in the course of human events it becomes necessary to celebrate a 
holiday? 
The answer will readily appear. It will take the form of $. 
The willingness of the back-yard poultryman to publish his tribula¬ 
tions would be astonishing were there not some reason to suspect the 
motive. He will cheerfully supply the cloud so long as you will furnish 
the silver lining. Getting down to brass tacks, he has a good thing and 
isn’t hankering for competition. 
Some of the things he could tell but doesn’t are: 
That table waste turned into eggs will keep a family of 6 in fresh eggs 
every day in the year. 
That you throw enough perfectly good food material into the garbage 
can every day to pay half the cost of keeping a dividend-paying flock of 
hens. 
That you pay fancy prices for fresh or near-fresh eggs during the fall 
and winter months merely because you are paying for fresh eggs out of 
season. 
An Old 
Problem 
Dollars— 
That’s All 
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