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week. If the cull eggs were not 
enough, we used from the oldest. In | 
that way, the eggs I sold were al- 
ways at least one day fresher than 
those we were using. 
On Saturdays, entry was made of 
total number of eggs laid, number 
sold, price’ obtained; feed bought, 
price; af pong wént broody; if set; 
: -hgtched; how good a 
: a other information 
rom the best hens 
§ used “for® “hatching, and young 
weay, ft chosen, 
and fancy points. In that way we 
ate the least profitable and the flock 
was steadily improving. 

Few realize the big money income 
which may be obtained from back 
yard flocks. Mr. Kellerstrauss, the 
developer of the Crystal White 
strain of Orpingtons remarked to a 
reporter that during the preceding 
twelve months, he had sold a little 
over $2000 worth of eggs from a 
plot 40x40 feet. The publisher of a 
poultry magazine ridiculed the state- | 
Keller- 
ment in an editorial. Mr. 
strauss promptly sued the magazine 
for 5c damage and proved the truth > 
of his statement in court. 
The editor ceremoniously paid 
him a bright new nickel and all par- 
ties to the suit, plaintiff, defendant, 
lawyers and court adjourned to a 
hotel for a banquet and love feast. 
I do not advise my readers to try to 
reach his goal. Investment too heavy 
and risks too big. 
At the back of his poultry lot was 
a 10x40 ft. henhouse divided into 
four 10x10 pens. In front were four 
10x30 ft. runs. Pen No. 1 contained 
the great Peggy, for whom he re- 
fused an offer of $10,000 cash; her 
best daughters, and Crystal Prince, 
best rooster in the International 
poultry show in London. Eggs from 
this pen sold at $150’ a setting. 
Pen No. 2 contained other daugh- 
ters of Peggy and a son of Crystal 

THE YELLOW SHEETS 
for health, vigor | 

September-October, 1947 
Prince. These eges sold for $75 a 
setting. Eggs from the other two 
pens brought only $30 a setting. — 
But against these enormous sales 
must be charged the service of an 
armed guard each night; and when — 
Peggy was away from home at ex- _ 
hibitions, she had a personal guard, _ 
who carried her in a special locked 
basket handcuffed to his wrist. Too _ 
much expense for most of us, but — 
-anye — with intelligence and integ- . 
rity «in breed up a strain whose. 
chor a eggs will be worth from 
($1.E 7 to $3.50 a setting, and ng : 
is good profit in that. 
Frost will be coming to many gar- 
dens now and we should save all 
we can. Food is needed to win the 
peace as badly as to win the war, 
and a lot of silly advice gets into 
print. | have read several times that 
only those tomatoes beginning to 
ripen should be saved. I save even 
the tiny ones. And I don't ‘wrap 
them in paper, nor any extras; but 
I am extra careful not to bruise 
them. When frost threatens | raid 
near by dump heaps for leaky 
buckets: strip the vines, but handle 
them like thin shelled eggs. Each 
following Saturday, they are looked 
over © arefully and those showing 
col | ire put on a window ledge to 
fini Others gently returned to the 
buc | x. Naturally those nearest rip- 
eni..g Til ripen first, the little ones 
last. But even if small they are nice 
in cooking and my gang liked to eat 
them. 
Another garden product which 
should be saved, big or little, is 
Honey Dew melon With us, they 
are a good succession crop to Bush 
Beans, and some of them will ripen 
before frost. Pick them all and put 
up on a frost free shelf. | was never 
able to raise enough to last my gang 
past early December, but the last 
we ate were sound and would have 
kept Pegi 3 oO 

