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"Wall, I'm gettin' to be somewhat of a bigotist," he said; "I barely git a livin'." "Why Mr. Crankin " I began. The name roused his jealous ire, and his voice, a low mumble before, now burst into a loud roar.
About this time the statement of Mr. Crankin, of North Yeaston, Rhode Island, that he makes a clear and easy profit of five dollars and twenty cents per hen each year, and nearly forty-four dollars to every duck, and might have increased said profit if he had hatched, rather than sold, seventy-two dozen eggs, struck me as wildly apocryphal.
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.
Sell 'em all out at nine weeks, 'fore the pin feathers come; then they're good eatin' for them as likes 'em. I've heard of yure old lot. Kill 'em, I say, and start new!" "Crankin says " So I felt; but it would not do to give up. I purchased an expensive incubator and brooder needn't have bought a brooder.
In the early summer I attended a poultry show at Rooster, Mass., and, in a moment of impulsive enthusiasm, was so foolish as to pause and admire and long for a prize peacock, until I was fairly and hopelessly hypnotized by its brilliant plumage. I reasoned: Anybody can keep hens, "me and Crankin" can raise ducks, geese thrive naturally with me, but a peacock is a rare and glorious possession.
"Yes, Crankin makes money, has a sight o' incubators, makes 'em himself, sells a lot, but some say they don't act like his do when they git off his place; most on 'em seem possessed, but Crankin, <i>he</i> can manage 'em and makes money too." "Do your ducks lay much?" "Lay! I don't want 'em to lay!
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