Why not go to raising elephants? A good elephant will sell for eight
thousand dollars. A pair of elephants can be bought by a community of
farmers pooling their issues and getting a start, and in a few years every
farm can be a menagerie of it own, and every year we can rake in from
eight to twenty-four thousand dollars from the sale of surplus elephants.
It may be said that elephants are hearty feeders, and that they would go
through an ordinary farmer in a short time. Well, they can be turned out
into the highway to browse, and earn their own living. This elephant
theory is a good one, and any man that is good on figures can sit down and
figure up a profit in a year sufficient to go into bankruptcy.