The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-08-28

What 1t Would Cost Him.
Then you are greater than the beef
trust II every one Of your thirty
cows had a calf. the thirty calves
might bring you $500. but no more. In
figuring on the expenses OF the first
year WI will say that your hay and soft
feed cost you S1.70O. That Is a very
close estimate. You L buy a team
OF horses. wagon. milk cans. pals.
churns. etc. You must allow at least
$500 for these things"
Not on your life! Not IL I know
how to cipher! Why. you must take
me for the biggest fool in the state"
you can submit my figures to any
one you will. You have estimated your
income altogether too high. The COWS
Will give much less milk in the winter
Some OF them ma be ailing or die
The price Of hay hay 90 up. Instead
Of $40 per week. YOU should figure OF
So. Out of this. even after you get
started. must come tie expenses IF
feed. help and the keep OF your team.
You VII have 70 turn III and work
yourself, and # there is any 'Bowser's
Best butter made you VIII have 7 al
,0w me an extra G;rl Il The house
Do2't bob around on our chair now.
but lure as G business man"
Figures Encourage Bowser.
Don't tell me that ! am bobbing
around" shouted III. EOWsec, SO loud
i tLat he was heard il tie next house.
"Ouc would think you were talking to
an infant. | say YOU are wrong from
beginning to end. ! tell you there's at
least $1,000 a year clean profit in this
thing for me. but of course o want
to knock it in the head If you can. By
thunder, what a jackass I am ever to
sit down and talk to you about bust
ness"
II don't think you have lost anything
by it," quietly replied Mrs. Bowser.
However, if you think I am wrong,
please show me where. Can you buy
COWS for less than $40 apiece? Haven't
you got to have a barn? Haven't you
got to have help? Haven't you got to
have feed? Tell me where my figures
are too high"
whats the use? You don't want to
be convinced. and you won't be. l am
offered the opportunity Of my life, ard
you stand in the way and try to make
me out an idiot"
You are hardly fair with me, Mr..
Bowser. If you will show me where I
am wrong in my figures I'll cheerfully
start a dairy farm with you"
"Ill bring you figures from a mar
who has run a dairy farm himself and
made $4,000 a e at it I'll even
bring the man himself"
A minute later Mr. Bowser was out
of the house and on his way to the
family butchers. He had often heard
that the butcher was formerly a dairy
farmer, and that his sole object in sell
ing out and moving into town was to
educate his son in telling the difference
between q knOckknecd horse and a
comic opera. He found the butcher
smoking his pipe and meditating, and
he began:
"A1r. Bones. didn't you used to run a
dairy farm sOmewhere?'
Il think So" was the cautious an
swer.
"And you made $4,000 a year,"
81 have been charged with so doing"
"Well, now, knowing me as you do,
what would o advise in my case? l
can trade my house and lot for a dairy
farm"
How many acres?"
eighty"
How many cows"
GAS many as I want to buy. I thought
Of starting with thirty"
Flows the COW barn?"
There isn't any"
"What's your experienced"
Haven't had any"
Butcher 0iscourages Plan.
"Air. Bowser." said the butcher, as
he rose up and got behind the meat
block. go into tle business Of raising
~jaci2Sses. You have had experience
an cuI't hep Ut L42i:e i Success"
There wGuI ,aEr been 4 row had
Mt i coG%};e q: Wo..an Customers come
il. NJ. Dp.:'r Wa< forced - p0s--
poIe the bi)oI.ete..,S to another the.
and he Went oct ana! Wan ~. ~ aHl
G1"'I tie s."ent Vi! 80 ~. -
bac.; bumped UP. Is dairy -. So,
on him. His "DoN:a"'s Bet" vol
never be on tie Gtl"iet. 10 w9:.I
never rub the b"r'.S of COWS or fond,e
their calves. An. nen and women
who took notice OF him whispered to
each other:
Say, that's Bowser, that is, and
Mrs. Bowser's got the better Of him
again. NJ. QUAD.
The JOY OF II.