48 THE HISTORY OF 



to be sure, it was after they had " gone through the mill," 

 and had come out at the small end of the funnel. 



In New England, especially, prior to the second show of 

 poultry in Boston, the fever had got well up to " concert 

 pitch ;" and in New York State " the people " were getting 

 to be very comfortably interested in the subject — where 

 my stock, by this time, had come to be pretty extensively 

 known. 



The expenses attendant upon this part of the business, to 

 wit, the process of furnishing the requisite amount of informa- 

 tion for " the people " (on a subject of such manifestly great 

 importance), the quantum, sufficit in the way of drawings, 

 pictures, advertisements, puffings, etc., through the medium 

 of the press, can be imagined, not described. 



The cost of the drawings and engravings which I had 

 executed for the press, from time to time, during the years 

 1850, '51, '52, and '53, exceeded over eight hundred dol- 

 lars; but this, with the descriptions of my "rare" stock 

 (which I usually furnished 'the papers, accompanying the 

 cuts), was m,y chosen mode of advertising. And I take 

 this method publicly to acknowledge my indebtedness to the 

 press for the kindness with which I was almost uniformly 

 treated, while I was thus seriously affected by the epidemic 

 which destroyed so many older and graver men than myself; 

 though few who survived the attack "suffered" more 

 seriously than I did, during the course of the fever. For 



