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The Rise and Fall of the Chicken Industry
A local chick hatchery accidentally delivered 10 times the number of birds that Steele had ordered. She just did her best to raise them in her 256 square foot barn, which was a real foreshadowing of the poultry industry at its 10. Sounds like my apartment. More than 100 of the chicks died, unsurprisingly. But the ones that lived did yield her a good return, something like $11 per pound adjusted for inflation.
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