Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-18
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talk it over with me-"
why not talk it over with me?''
asked Mrs. Bowser.
"You won't comprehend 1t, of course
but I'll give you an outline of it. How
much do you suppose a man down in
Ohio has made out of chickens in the
last Year,"
"A thousand dollars. perhaps
cover $4,000 clean money, and next
year he will double that amount. I've
got my facts and figures down pat,
and I'm going into chicken raising"
What are your facts and figures?"
"You cat understand them, but
I'll give you few. / start in with
1000 hens"
Where do you start?"
"Where do l start? Perhaps you inn
agine I'm going to make a hen roost
of the top of the house! l start in our
back yard, Of course. I buy 1000 hens
at twenty-five cents apiece"
l
to do it, said Mrs. Bowser. 1.-THE very
lowest figure you can make is fifty
cents, and the fowls will be common
at that. Having got your thousand
hens together, then what?''
'Then l depend ON eggs, and chick
ems" replied Mr.. Bowser. Il figure on
500 eggs per day. Well call it fifty
dozen, and put the price at twenty
cents per dozen There's $40 per day
for sure. One thousand hens ought to
hatch ten thousand chickens per year.
Each chick will readily sell for
Gust wait minute. Let us begin
with The back yard. We have an area
CT 30x45 feet One thosand hens
wouldn't have room to flap their wings
in that space"
Are you trying to make out that l
don't know enough to come in when it
rains!" shouted Mr.. Bowser as he
bobbed up with furious gestures.
Mot at all; you are going into poul-
try. You are going to make fortune.
I haven't a business head on me, OF
course, but l can figure little. You
might coop up fifty hens in the back
yard, but no more. AS to eggs, If you
get two hundred a day from thous-
and hens you would do well. The in
crease would not be half what you fig
ure. Then you have not figured on the
expense of the lumber and carpenter
work for the coops, nor for feed and
help. You sec"
Eyes, / see-of course I see! I see
that you know nothing about poultry
l tell you that any man with an ounce
of brains can make $4,000 year out of
two thousand fowls"
"Well, let us see how it is done"
tits done in business way, of
course"
''Ihen we'll figure in business way
You want lumber and nails for the
coops, and there will be carpenter
work. How much lumber"
mot a plank-not a board-not
foot!" howled Mr.. Bowser.
But how are you going to do?"
None of your business! I go to
work and invent plan to make $4,000
a year as easy as rolling off a log.
come home feeling pleasant over it.
Like an ass l state the plan to you,
and you Immediately and maliciously
set out to tear it to pieces. Woman"
1t was lucky for Mr.. Bowser that
Just then he heard the voice of tramp
in the basement hall asking the cook
for bite to eat. 1t offered him a d.
version and he took advantage of it.
He turned from Mrs. Bowser and
rushed down stairs, followed by the
cat, and he fell upon that unsuspicious
tramp like thunderbolt. There was
mix-up, three or four whoops and
yells, and then the tramp broke loose
and spread his wings and made for the
street. He didn't stop to open the
gate, but went over the fence like
bird, and the chase was over. When
Mr.. Bowser returned to the sitting
room pencil and paper had disappear
ed. and the diplomatic Mrs. Bowser
was looking into the family almanac
to see what day in the week the next
Fourth of July would fall on.
Copyright, 1900, by C. B. Lewis.)