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.

One pair dressed fourteen pounds." Isn't that better than selling milk at two and a half cents per quart?
And no money can be made on vegetables unless they are raised under glass in advance of the season.

I know, for did I not begin with "pie plant," with which every market was glutted, at one cent per pound, and try the entire list, with disgustingly low prices, exposed to depressing comparison and criticism?
When endeavoring to sell, one of the visiting butchers, in reply to my petition that he would buy some of my vegetables, said: "Well now, Marm, you see just how it is; I've got more'n I can sell now, and women keep offering more all the way along.