The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-06-12

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in something besides words What is
the Wide World Chicken and Infant
Raising company? AS its name Inn
plies, the object is to raise chickens
and infants How, sir, how? All, that
is Major Crofoot's great discovery,
which has enabled him to organize a
company on a basis Of $4,000, 600.
The discovery is not original, but we
apply it as 1t has never been applied
before. We incubate chickens, but by
the million instead of the score. Take
your pencil and figure little"
-"But I came up for my $780," said
the printer in ugly tones.
flake your pencil and figure. Eggs
can be bought for 20 cents a dozen.
For cents additional one dozen chick
ems can be produced. -Four cents more
and you have a dozen spring chickens
worth 80 cents apiece at the incubator;
total for eggs, incubating and feeding,
30 cents; total for chickens, So; clear
profit to divide up on every dozen,
1910. Can Cripple Greek or the dia-
mond mines beat it? We produce TO-
100000 dozen chickens per year. Fig
ure it out, man, figure it out. Do you
want greater dividends than 70 per
cent on your capital? If you do
"What about this billf' demanded
the printer as he lifted 1t off the desk
and laid it back again.
eff you d." continued the major as
he walked about the room with hands
crossed under his coattails, "then you
shall have it. We incubate infants In
the same machines, with only thin
partition between. We take infants
J after they are "a hours old-white,
black or any other color and without
reference to sex-and we bring them
up until they are a year old at so much
per week. Terms are strictly cash in
advance every Monday morning. and
every kid is marked on the right heel
with our stamp and can't get lost or
mixed up In the shuttle. While we are
Matching 100000 dozen eggs we are
bringing up 100000 infants. 1 put
the number at that, but it may be a
few dozen more or less. Two dollars a
week for 100000 infants is over $10,-
100000 per year. Call the expense for
milk, paregoric and toast $1,000,000,
and what profit do you have leftT
sBut have come here to collect g
bill"
''The 100000 profit on the infants
added to the profits on the chickens
gives us dividend of $1.20 on the dol
lar, and can you ask for more, sir-can
you do it2 Why, man, the wealth Of
Golconda Is not In it! The De Beers
diamond bonds are waste paper in COM
parisonl And you are to share in it.
You are no longer struggling printer
on the seventh floor back, but a mil
lionaire on the first floor front. take
you in. 1 allot you 100000 worth Of
stock at 80 cents on the dollar, and in
two weeks, if you care to sell out,
buy it at par. That's your reward for
your confidence in Major Crofoot; that's
what comes
'But l have no confidence in your
shouted the creditor. PAY this bill,
and you can incubate and be hanged
and keep all the proftsw
"You have simply to rest easy" con-
LlnuoO the ndJOr as ne began 10 WIKI
on the mans toes and drive him to-
ward the door. "Just keep quiet for
couple of weeks, until the stock is is
sued. If anything was said at the
present time
"What you pushing me forT
eff anything was said at the present
time, some one might cut in on u.s. Just
go right back to your shop
81 want that money!
land keep mum, and the stock will
be sent to you in due time. That's it
good day-good day. Your confidence
In Major Crofoot has brought its re-
ward"
'Look here, majorF" shouted the
printer as he hammered on the out
side Of the door, you are an old dead
beatl You-you"-
The bill was showed under the door
against his toes. He picked 1t up,
gave the door three hearty kicks and
slowly went down stairs. He realized
that he had been taken in on the
ground floor. M. QUAD.