Of these, I will say that half die, that will make five chickens for each hen; you see, I leave a large margin for loss.

This makes fifty chickens, and when we add the ten hens, we have sixty fowls at the end of the first year.

Next year I set these sixty and they bring up five chickens each,--I am sure there will be a larger proportion than this, but I want to be safe,--and that is three hundred chickens; add the hens, and we have three hundred and sixty at the end of the second year.

In the third year, calculating in the same safe way, we shall have twenty-one hundred and sixty chickens; in the fourth year there will be twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty, and at the end of the fifth year, which is as far as I need to calculate now, we shall have sixty-four thousand and eight hundred chickens.

What do you think of that?
At seventy-five cents apiece,--a very low price,--that would be forty-eight thousand and six hundred dollars.