Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-01-16
ABOUTCATS ANDRA7
A TALE FROM IOWA, WHICH IS
 HAVE A CAT FARM.

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 Isotb-A Project Whose End Is Catsh,.H
 A cat factory is the latest Iovk scheme. Every littlo while stranee N nnors come out of the west, but of ak the wild border it's Iowa sen!s thebosE The Sun has had it's eye on Iowa fos long time. Even with half an eye or could sec that strange things were hapN pening out there. In fact, four of tbes strange things happened along thiswayN When Now York saw the four Cherrv.E it decided that there were stranea.S things in heaven and earth and Iowsk than were dreamed of in its philoaopb7 The cat factory scheme goes to confrnu this belief. A
 Clinton, according to report, is to bsH the home of the projected factory. Thsh idea has not been entirely carried out X but it Is ripe for execution, and the E magnifoent schemes of Colonel Seller; paie into insigniioanoe beside the pos E abilities of this prairie project.
 Clinton is a beautiful town ill tho ez treme eastern portion of tho state. As far as can be learned, it has never borna N l i'll will or malice against anybody, con. eeouently tho cat factory cannot be d the nature of q revenge. The Olintoa people do not understand It. They haYs given bonuses to packing houses and E | bonuses to wagon factories anG build. ina gito to tho cracker man, who said he'd let the poor have all his broken crackers. But they never gave oven On. eouragement to the cat factory.
 Tho cat factory didn't ask for encour. aoement. All it wanted was a chance, and two enterprising men from Kansas have promised that. The simplicity of their scheme is ill itself q stroke of genius. Here are the details;
 In tho first place, they are to have number of acres on the outskirts of tho town. This farm, If 5eu choose to caH it that, is 10 Do stocked with 1000 as sorted cats. A separate portion of the place will be occupied by 5,000 rats The 5. 1000 rats are to be fed gradually to the 1000 cats Meantime both oats and rats will increase ill numbers de. suite tho fact that tho cats are eating the rats. It is estimated that the number of cats will increase to Is, 900 during tho first year and to s25, GOO during the sec. ond year.
 Of course, if the rats increased no faster thau the cats, tho cats would soon eat up all the rats, and there would be trouble. But they don't give way to these littio difficulties out in Iowa The cats are to be raised for the skins which are worth S1 each in tho market. When the cats are killed for their skins, their bodies aro fed to the rats, which will fatten on their adversaries' bones Thus fattenod, they themselves will become more toothsemo and nourishing for the cats. when it is the turn of the rats to be eaten.
 Tho beauty of this plas must be ap- parent. What arc cats today become rats tomorrow, and what arc rats tomorrow become cats next day, and so on round the circle of rats and cats until dooms- l day-or the time when the Clinton peo- pic shall turn out and exterminate the whole institution.
 1 But this isn't all. The cats become rats and tho rats become cats, as before explained. Also, the cats become more eats and the rats become more rats with a persistent rapidity which makes one Is brain reel. If tho 1000 cats became 225, GOO in two years, the question is, how many rats will they have from q beginning of 5000, provided the ratf increase five times faster than tho cats. One must consider the fact, however, that tho eats will eat more rats than the rats cen cat oats. This is important. Also, that many of the rats, having beer eaten by the cats, will therefore be ill corporated ill the cat population, ant will be assisting the cat total to th' dotrimont of the rats. Of course, at th' same time, some of the cats will hay' been eaten by tho rats. and must there fore be suhtracted from the cat pro duoers and added to tho rats.
 Now, thero is another problem. If thl cats ate nothing but rats, then the on tire 5, 000 rats would be eaten by tn LOGO cats inside of the first week, ant the story would be done more quick. even than the famous tale of Solomon Grundy, which covered Q period o seven days, not counting the obsequie which must have occurred the mex week. There must be way out of this Naturally enough, it is milky way. ] third section of the farm will be devote to COWS. The cows, it is to be hoped fo the success of tho scheme, will giy milk. Part of this milk will be fed { the cats. The rest will be made int cheese for the rats. It is so easy to xii two birds with one stone if you hay tho right kind of birds and the righ kind of q stone.
 Here, then, is the project complete First, tho farm, which is to be SUI rounded by a 10 foot fence to preyer the escape of tho capitalized stock of tn company; second, the COWS, which wi furnish milk for tic cats and cheese fC the rats; third and fearth, for they al inseparable, or will Do in tho course ( year or two, the cats that are to ea the rats and tho rats that arc to eat th cats, the cats becoming rats and tt rats cats New York Sun.
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