National Agricultural Library

Eggs the Year Round From Table Scraps: How Idle Land and Table Waste can be Turned Into Dollars

International Poultry Sales Company. Scranton, PA

Few 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 $.