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averaged more than 250 eggs per hen yearly, avoid him. 

 Speaking of a certain " System," the same man says : 

 " Any man possessing a grain of sense knows that if 

 this person had a ' System ' by which he could make the 



Plucking the Ostrich : Plumes are Legitimately Worth Much More than " A 

 Dollar a Sell" 



immense profits that he claimed to have done, he would 

 have kept it to himself and have gone right on clearing 

 ^50,000 from every acre instead of selling his ' System ' 

 at a dollar a Sell." 



