SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
subject. I did not exactly understand 
what such wisdom, as I saw shining out 
through their benign countenances, meant; 
but I reached the conclusion, through 
some process of reasoning, that they had 
it in for me, for some reason best known 
to themselves, and that it would be a 
waste of time to seek any further infor- 
mation from them. I concluded, further, 
that I had a little genius of my own, and, 
being from Missouri, would show them 
(Missouri, you know, is the ‘‘Show Me 
State’’) before long that I could make an 
incubator incubate. Well, I finally showed 
them, and they certainly enjoyed the show, 
as you will soon see. 
I heard of a neighboring lady who had 
a home-made incubator that she had hired 
a carpenter to make; so I went to see her 
to find out what she knew about incubators 
and to get her plans and specifications, if 
she had them, for making one. Instead of 
offering to let me have the plans and speci- 
fications, either with or without price, she 
seemed more anxious to loan me her ma- 
chine, and that, too, without price. I 
marveled at this, at the time, for the 
hatching season was rapidly approaching 
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