 Cecilia Steele was the wife of a farmer in this place called Delmarva, which is this little stick of land just north of Washington, D.C. And she lived on a multipurpose farm. They grew a variety of crops, including a pretty large flock of laying hens. And so she, every year, would order more chicks for her flock. Extraordinarily, in the 1920s, egg farmers like the Steele's could order new batches of chicks directly through the post.