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Updated: May 12, 2025
I still read "Crankin's" circulars with a thrill of enthusiasm because his facts are so cheering. For instance, from his latest: "We have some six thousand ducklings out now, confined in yards with wire netting eighteen inches high. The first lot went to market May 10th and netted forty cents per pound. These ducklings were ten weeks old and dressed on an average eleven pounds per pair.
I almost hear such a monster of a house-wife, fully ninety feet high, say to a servant, looking sternly and critically at me: "That fat, white creature must be killed; just eats her old head off will soon be too tough" Ugh! Here Tom comes with five headless fowls. Wasn't that a weird fancy of mine? Truly "Me and Crankin's two different critters."
So much for market gardening at a distance from city demands. But ducks! Sydney Smith, at the close of his life, said he "had but one illusion left, and that was the Archbishop of Canterbury." I still believe in Crankin and duck raising. Let me see: "One pair dressed fourteen pounds, netted forty cents per pound." I'll order one of Crankin's "Monarch" incubators and begin a poultry farm anew.
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