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I am pretty sure he must have been short-selling in the chicken market. Good foresight.

Yeah, selling chickens in the morning promising afternoon delivery and then buying up all the surplus chickens after lunch at the reduced price.

Oh, it sounds much more realistic when you put it that way. I actually wasn't sure what a real-life application of "short selling" would look like.

It was more or less a thought experiment on whether it would be possible to sell negative chickens.

Pretty disappointed only one answer involved a time machine.

He rented a time machine so that he could buy the 36 chickens sold in the afternoon and then sell them in the morning at a $2.50 premium per chicken.

He arrived at the market, bought nine of Farmer 1's chickens, cooked them, and sold each cooked chicken for $10 more than he paid for it.

He preached about forth and was paid $90 to stop?