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hourly collection rounds. Under these conditions, the daily production of
laying hens is 58 per cent as against the usual 50 per cent figure.

The chickens’ food is within easy reach of each cage, being supplied on a
conveyor belt which runs on each tier. A constant drip of water is provided
from a metal nipple at the top of the cages. A second conveyor belt, running
under the cages, catches the waste matter which is carried to a bin and there
removed periodically to be used in making a highgrade fertilizer.

As any infection would be disastrous to the entire flock of 61,000 chickens,
the utmost cleanliness prevails. Each room is disinfected once a day and, at
short intervals, all cages are subjected to live steam. The twentyone
employees wear spotless uniforms—the women being dressed in white and
the men in striped linen trousers and coats.

This factory-operated farm has created such interest that not only have
farmers in adjacent communities made trips to the farm, but those from
distant lands, such as Egypt and Africa. In fact, so numerous are the visitors
during the week-ends, that the cages have been separated from the onlookers
by walls of glass in order to minimize the danger of infection.

Selling “Fighting” Fish by Mail

W
HEN Bill Klaiber, of San Francisco, took up the hobby of breeding Siamese
fighting fish and other tropical varieties, he little realized he was starting
what has since turned out to be a “national” fish business.

Bill’s regular job is a glass worker for a paint manufacturer. He began raising
tropical fish three years ago, having bought some fish from a friend who was
going out of business. As usual, Bill delved deeply into his subject, reading
everything he could find; even buying expensive books unobtainable in the
library. He applied what he read and added constantly to his stock. Fanciers
heard of his fine collection and came to buy. Bill Klaiber was amazed at the
marketing possibilities and the eagerness of people to secure a coveted
specimen. So he became a dealer as well as a fancier before many months