Gloucester County Democrat., 1904-11-17

faithful Chinaman who had worked
for him several years. Ching Lee
transferred his fidelity to John Stege's
daughter When she began to net
frogs for market Ching Lee entered
into her plan with all his Chinese pa
tience and industry. He took upon his
arm big basket of frogs and carried
them from door to door Of restaurants
and hotels getting fine prices for
them Meantime Miss Edith was at
home catching more frogs.
She learned as she went along. In
time the marsh was turned into sep
arato ponds for frogs of different yari-
eties and of different stages of growth.
There was one for tadpoles, another
for half grown frogs and another for
the full crowns. The mortgage long
since has been paid and the frog marsh
has been turned into Il slightly up to
date farm home, one of the show
places of the region. Every tourist
wishes to see Miss Stege's frog farm.
with its lakes, bridges and canals
A young lady in the east has gone in
to the business of rearing Persian cats
for a living. She finds it easy to get
from them an income of $1,000 year:
more than that some years. The busi-
ness has not as vet been overdone, for
Persian cats on commercial scale
were only introduced into this country
some twelve years ago. They We're
brought first to the Pacific slope and
made their way gradually east and in
to fashionable cat circles about the
same time In England the Persian
cat has been in high favor with fash
ionable fanciers for many years.
Women have proved more successful
in the rearing of high bred cats than
men have for the reason that women
like eats better than men do. The
young woman who clears $1,000 year
from her persians says that the first
essential To success in rearing them is
that one must be natural lover of the
feline Otherwise by some occult
psychological law the cats seem TO
sicken and die.
The longer haired and the shorter
tailed ana @chuffier" the pedigreed
Persian pussy is the higher price will
she bring With some of the tribe the
hair sweeps the ground. The breed
is rather delicate and needs as much
care in the rearing as children do. It
is absolutely necessary that Persians
and their quarters be kept immaculate
~ clean. Moreover. neither the moth
er Persians nor their kittens can bear
crowding For beginner two female
cats with their offspring. some twenty
five kittens year, are as many as 1t
is well to undertake. Pedigreed Per-
SLAMS year old sell for from $50 to
$50 apiece and kittens six months old
for S25 though they are not certain
to thrive If sold so young as that.
Many Persians are reared by women in
Chicago.
There is lady near Philadelphia
who makes an excellent income from
raising squads. The business is yet
comparatively III its infancy. aud it
will not be overdone for years to come.
The Philadelphia woman has brought
her enterprise to so good condition
that she now sells a hundred squads
week at excellent prices
Some capital is required to begin
SQUAD raising, and little time must
elapse before any birds are ready for
market The stock pigeons to COM
mence OH can be had in some places
for IS cents pair. There are houses
and screen fences TO be built also, and
the would be SQUAD raiser must learn
the business. She must be prepared in
her mind to meet disappointment and
vexation by the way and go on to the
successful end nevertheless.
CAROLINE ANDERSON.