The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-09

side YOU would see heaps and heaps Of
hgh-born, carefully nurtured, yellow
skinned chickens on their way to the place
where all good chickens go. and dozens
and dozens of eggs, each one bearing the
stamp of the firms farm name and each
a. far above suspicion as Casar's wife
should be-
Besides the chickens and the eggs there
would be berries or fruit and vegetables,
according to the season, and perhaps some
bottles and Jars of pickles and preserves,
and maybe the feathers for a feather bed,
though that would be more doubtful
You will have gathered before this that
the firm of Sweet 4 Twenty is in the farming
business and that it's speciality is poultry,
with side lines Of all such goods a. poultry
farms conveniently produce. The thing
that makes il different from other firms
IL that its members are both young women
and that they have built up their own trade
and done the greater part Of the work
themselves.
Going into their farming venture alone
and without experience they have learned
1t 80 we'll and put so much intelligence and
50 much time into il that they have out
cassed all their rivals and reached point
where market prices have no special sig
nificance for them.
Market goods and mar ket prices are
made for most Of us who cant AFFORD any
thing better. But to be "A customer Of
Sweet 4 Twenty and pay your bills is
like having Al for million after your name
in the commercial directory. II means
that you have expensive tastes and the
means to crafty them.
THE Partnerships sTAsT
1t was a piece in the paper that started
the firm. That was about fifteen years
ago.
One Of the partners-they were just
chums then and very young seen
misfortune come upon her family and
realized that something had TO he done.
Her first expedient was the typewriter,
and her first employment was in lawyers
office, but II didn't suit.
The confinement Of the long day, the
poor little cold luncheon that typewriter
girls have for their midday meal, the weary
humdrum. were not for her, and the type
writing craft lost a reluctant member.
They talked il over, the chums, and the
mother If one Of them, and II was the mother
who found the bright idea.
Here you are girls, just the thing
Abe said, looking up from her paper.
What is just the thing?" they both asked,
eagerly
Chickens replied the mother, go
and raise chickens. Now listen to this
And she read aloud an exposition OF
ohlcken-raising as a woinan's occupation
Perhaps 1t was fortunate that the writer
didn't know much about 1t and painted the
picture a great deal brighter than II ought
to have been
If all the hard work, and difficulties and
hardships had been described, nothing
eNtenuated and naught set down In malice,
maybe II would have remained for some
other women to demonstrate that the thing
Gould be done
They went into business in a small way
al first. rather eSperimentally, in the out
skirts of Brooklyn, and found that they
liked IT and that they were a. least making
PIN money.
A FAI.a AT las.
Then the father Of the girl whose mother
mad discovered the poultry business so
70 speak, bought ten acres OF land with a
fine old frame house on II and Preparations
Tor bucolic life on a large scale began
The only buildings on tho little farm
we're the house and the barn. so the first
evident requirement for poultry business
was a henhouse
When it was bull, it was the longest
created thing in the neighborhood 2i7
i"rt, or maybe it's 2lS-but anyway, il =
very long, and it is made Of red boards
with glass in the front for the southern sun
OF wint"r 20 shine through and warm and
brighten the lives Of the Inhabitants.
IN" interior arrangements have been
aHt'i very materially since the begin
INK IN -, light AMI wisdom OF expcr-
l"1c', bm the house has gone on getting
cleaner and better and more hcnlike from
a day 30 this
~" Jops' - now divided into many com
par. Mt, crrn Win iis yard o. run. in
EACH ard there is fruit tree. The tree Ii