Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-02
ABOUT CATS AND RATS
4 1sLE FROM IOWA. WHICH IS TO
 HAVE A CAT FARM.

Cats to Eastan inc Rats and Cows to
 supply the Fest Of the Needed Food For l Boti--A Preiees Whose End Is Catskins.
 l cat factory is the latest Iowa scheme. Every Httle while strange ru- mors come out ef the west. but of all the wild border it's Iowa sends the best. ] The sun has had it's eye on Iowa for long tIna Even with half m eye one could see that strange things were hap l peaing ont there h fact, four of these arrange things happened along this way f When New York saw the four Cherrys. t decided that there were stranger things n heaven and earth and Iowa than were dreamed of in it's philosophy. i The cal factory scheme goes to confirm this Belief
 Clinton, according to report, is to be i the home ef the projected factory The ilea has not been entirely carried out. i but lt is fine for execution, and the magnificent schemes Of Colonel Sellers 1 pale into insigni6canoe beside the pos l sibiIities Of this prairie project
 Clinton Is q beautiful town in the ex- tFame eastern portion of the state. As l far as can bo learned, it has never borne i II viii CT malice against anybody, con sequeutly the eat factory cannot be of l tho nature of a revenge. The Clinton l people do not understand it. They have i given bonuses to packing houses and bonuses 10 wagon factories and a build ing site e tbe cracker man, who said ! he'd let the poor have all his broken crackers But they never gave even en- e6urggement to the cat factory.
 The cat factory didn't ask for encour- aEement. Al 1t wanted was chance, and two eHterprising men from Kansas have promised that. The simplicity of their scheme is in itself a stroke of 1 genius Here are tho details:
 b Che first place, they are to have number Of acres on tha outskirts of the town This farm. if you choose to call t that. is e be stocked with LOGO as- ] sorted cats. A separate portion of the ] place will He occupied by 5. GOO rats. The 1000 Iats are to be fed gradually to the I, ,o06 eats. Meantime both cats and rats will increase in numbers de- 1 spite the fact that the cats are eating the rats Ieis estimated that tho number of eats will increase 10 b. 900 during the first year and to 225, coo during the sec end year
 ef eoarse. If the rats increased no f faster than the cats, the cats would soon eat up al the fatsi and there would be trouble But they don't give way to these Iittla difficulties out in Iowa The cats are te ha raised for the skins, which are worth B each in the market. When the cats are killed for their skins, their bodies arc fed to the rats, which will I fatteu on their adversaries' bones. Thus fattened, they themselves will become more toothseme and nourishiDg for the eats. when ib is the turn of the rats to he eaten.
 The beauty Of this plan must be ap. parent. What are cats today become rats tomofrew, and what are rats tomorrow become cats next day, and so on round the circle of rats and cats until dooms, day--or tho time when the Clinton peo. pie shall turn out and exterminate the whole institution.
 But this isn't all. The cats become rats and the rats become cats, as before i explained. Also, the cats become more i cats and the rats become more rats with q persistent rapidity which makes one 8 brain reel. If the ,000 cats became 225, 900 II two years, the question is, l how many rats will they have from a beginning Of 5000, provided the rats increase five times faster than the cats. One must consider the fact, however, that tho cats will eat more rats than the rats can cat cats This is important. Also. that many of the rats, having been l eaten by the cats, will therefore be in- corporated in the cat population, and i will be assisting the cat total to the detriment Of the rats. Of course, at the same time, some of the cats will have been eaten by the rats, and must there fore be subracted from the cat pro- ducers and added to the rats
 Now there Is another problem. If the cats ate nothing but rats, then the en tire 5, 900 rats would be eaten by the 1, 900 cats inside of the first week, and tho story would be done more quickly even than the famous tale of Solomon Grundy, which covered a period of seven days, not counting the obsequies which must have occurred the next week. There must be way out of this i Naturally enough, it Is milky way. A third section of the farm will be devoted to COWS. The COWS, it is to be hoped for the success of the scheme, will give milk Part of this milk will be fed to the cats. Tho rest will be made into cheese for tho rats. It is so easy to kill two birds with one stoue if you have the right kind of birds and the right kind of q stone.
 Here, then. is the project complete: First the farm, which is to be sur rounded by 10 foot fence to prevent the escape of the capitalized stockof the company second, the cows, which will n..r.,-.I. ...sl Gc.. IL z. % t- o.,d nannsn for