Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-23
Chickens That Make Fortunes.
sLoooEo FOWLS WORTH $40 FREQUENTLY SOLD
NoRANcE WITH sRoiLERs.

"Pardner stake me to half. and
II will mean twenty bones to you in
twenty minutes"
The young man addressed as "Pard-
ner" wss a bank accountant. He was
not too proud to talk TO the hobo. He
looked at him with frank amusement.
I'm bite" he said VIVA, is The
new game"
"'1aint no game, colonel. it's fact.
See those chickens"
The froWsy one pointed to a crate
of live broiiers which was resting in
font of commission house.
We'll, ] am onto the curves of a
good cockerel" he went on. One OF
the birds there is the finest Rhode Is
land Red | have seen in two years
is worth $50, and l can buy him for
80 cents. Halt the profit is yours il
you will stake me-
"A chicken worth $50, Never heard
of such a thing. That story is raw"
Put ep the half and | will prove
it,"
There was an excited CLEAN in the
tramp's fishy eye, and the rush OF
blood in his cheeks was making curl
ous blotches under the top dressing oil
stubhle and dirt Satisfied that there
IVES some unseen angle in the game
which would swallow his hall dollar
ii he ventured il the Young man was
none the less disposed to see the mat
ter through.
How do YOU propose to work the
scheme ! don't understand it," he
said.
Just this way. You give me the
half"--here was the central point,
around which the whole transaction
revoked in the tramp's Judgment
"you give me the half. | buy the cock
We trolley to College Hill. There Is
poultryman there who knows chick
ems when he sees them. He will pay
us forty or fifty for this bird. ant
in three months turn over his money
three times in prizes at poultry shows.
But, Great Caesar, mani II there
is such n thing as n chicken wortl
$50 in this world. how docs it come
to be sold for food?"
IGNORANCE, colonel: pure Ignorance
Half the farmers in the country don
know high-bred bird when they SEE
it."
In 10 minutes the tramp had pur
chased the Rhode Island Red for a.
seat in n College Hill Main street ear
with the bank accountant two seats
behind him, bent on going the limit
The limit was simple.
The couple went to tho farm of ont
of Ohios poultry experts, and showed
him the bird.
1.-THE bird is easily worth $40" ht
said Il will give YOU $40 for him at,
ter see the commission merchant
and am assured that the bird has no,
been stolen or secured through doubt
fui tactics"
When the money was paid, two days
later the bank accountant refused MS
share.
Keep it all and get a bath and 6
shave" he told his partner. witt
your knowledge of poultry and you
| ability to see bargain when it is il
sight, that $40 ought to start YOU il
the way of being Il man again
And ii will be vastly better start
than ! had myself when | went into
the business ltI Nfdrs dSo, titSti tp'
ted the chicken expert. Il had Wife
a baby, not a dollar in the world. and
did not know hen from a rooster
Today I have dozen birds worth eacf
from 800 to $50. besides many from
s25 up. and thousand lever priced,
but high grade breeders. / own my
farm, with its homestead and dozens
of poultry houses. and have kept my
family well. and have money in the
bank.
Aside from the first couple OF years
when | made Il few dollars on the side
by lecturirg upon physical culture
topics, every dollar has been made for
me bv my chickens"
Then il is actually fact that there
is money for the WORKOUT city man
or the discouraged CITY woman il
raising poultry" asked the accountant
''Tne average man and woman has
come to look AT the profits in thai
business as being like finding none!
al the end of the rainbow"
Certainly. it Is true. Let me tell
you, young man. that the chances for
success are vastly better now than