. Case di città sulle corsie di campagna; filosofia e pratica della casa-in-un-giardino . lprofondamente innamorato con il gioco del pollame ad un'età precoce.nonostante questo, si è rivolto alla grande città per la sua oppor-tunity, come molti altri bambini allevati di paese di liberalEducation. Non ha trovato difficoltà nell'ottenere l'occupazione remunera-inctive, primo a Chicago, Poi a New York; e senza dubbio avrebbe fatto la sua strada nella vita cittadina, il buthe era chiaramente country-mented in temperament e mai abbastanza soddisfatto con la vita tra i grattacieli.passando su Quarta Avenue un giorno, le sue orecchie perquisiti dal suono benvenuto di cackling

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. City homes on country lanes; philosophy and practice of the home-in-a-garden . lldeeply in love with the poultry game at an early age.In spite of this, he turned to the big city for his oppor-tunity, like many other country-bred boys of liberaleducation. He found no difficulty in getting remunera-tive employment, first in Chicago, then in New York;and doubtless would have made his way in city life, buthe was distinctly country-minded in temperament andnever quite satisfied with life among the skyscrapers.Passing up Fourth Avenue one day, his ears wereassailed by the welcome sound of cackling hens andcrowing cocks announcing the annual poultry show inMadison Square Garden. He bought a ticket and wentin to feast his eyes on the poultry aristocracy of Amer-ica. That experience rekindled his early love, andspoiled him for the city; his heart was set on egg-farming as a profession. I use the word profession*advisedly, because Mr. Weeks had tliouglit of it fromthe beginning as sonietliing that shouhl be approachedand dealt with in the highest professional spirit, with. :31.5 ? -a 3 V The Old Hen in a New Environment 127 the advantage of all available knowledge. With thispurpose in view, he turned his back on the city, goingfirst to Indiana. He soon decided, however, that Cali-fornia was the better field, and it was there, after a hardstruggle covering a period of a dozen years, that hefinally evolved into a thoroughly successful egg-farmerand expert authority on the subject. Mr. Weeks tried many different methods. His hous-ing and feeding plans were never precisely alike for anytwo successive years, until he evolved his present systemin 1916. When he began, he thought ten acres a smallfarm for his purpose. When he ended his experimentshe had demonstrated that one acre was ample for anaverage family, and two or three acres about all thatshould be undertaken under any circumstances. He hadsatisfied himself that he could subsist on even less thanone acre—possibly so litt

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