"In important matters you are plumb decisive." We sat down at little tables, and my friend ordered a beer and a chicken sandwich.
"Chickens," says he, gazin' at the sandwich, "is a dollar apiece in this country, and plumb scarce.

Did you ever pause to ponder over the returns chickens would give on a small investment?
Say you start with ten hens.

Each hatches out thirteen aigs, of which allow a loss of say six for childish accidents.

At the end of the year you has eighty chickens.

At the end of two years that flock has increased to six hundred and twenty.