The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-02-13

Capital! What do we want of cap.
ltalY"
Perhaps you won't want any, but
we'll see. The first thing next spring
VIII be to prepare your ground. Ii
must be plowed two ways, dragged,
leveled and enriched. Do you know
what the cost will beT'
"A mere bagatelle."
Just so. II man and a team pre-
pare two acres u week they are hus-
ting. You'll have to buy the team.
plows, drags and all that If you are In
a hurry to get the plants in you'll have
to set four men and four teams at the
work. You must have a windmill and
at least thousand feet of hose; mustn't
let your plants burn up In dry sea
SON."
There you goF shouted Mr.. Bowser
as he rose up to walk around. II knew
you'd be making figures before you got
through
"We have to, you know. Well say
your hundred acres are all prepared
and you have got your well, your wind
mill, your pipes and your hose. Now
come your plants. What did Mr..
Scruggings say he should ask per hum
dredf"
"He-he didn't say"
swell, put 1t at so cents a hundred.
They ask that even for the common
plants. l think they put 400 plants to
the acre. That's 10000 plants. The
man who sets out an acre of plants per
day is doing well. You can keep one
man at 1t a hundred days or hire five
men for twenty days each. The cost
will be the same"
"By Thunder, Weman!"
"By thunder, woman, by thunder"
gasped Mr.. Bowsor
Those acres must be weeded and
watered and the runners cut off the
plants. Many will naturally die and
must be replaced. You must hire four
OF five men to do all this"
"Never, woman; never In this cold
world! You simply sit there making
fool of me. By John, but how you
would like to see me on the way to the
poorhouse! How you would chucklew
"And now" continued Mrs Bowser,
I'VE will say your hundred acres Of
strawberries are ripe. They have got
to be picked. You must figure on 2
cents quart for that and on at least
200 pickers. Then they must be boxed
and"-
Enough! Enough! | won't listen to
another wordv'
"They must be boxed, carted to the
depot and shipped. You must figure a
tidy sum for the boxes and the racklng
and shipping. You may also have to
hire extra teams for thirty days. If
your berries are put out on Arm mar
ket, you will get good price; IL not.
then you won't get enough to pay for
the shipping. Again
There is no again about itw shouted
Mr.. Bowser.
Again, If it should happen to be a
rainy season.
"Will you stop"
Certainly. You said you could make
$4,000 out of strawberries the first
season. was merely showing you
that
"That you didn't believe 1t, that II
couldn't be done, that I am the big
gest jackass in America, that you
that's the part you think wife ought
70 play. If some one offered me gold
mine for Is cents, you'd sniff at 1t
BY thunder, woman"-
And he rushed down the hall and
clapped his hat on his head and rushed
outdoors and disappeared in the dark.
nees of the autumn evening, and when
he came stealing upstairs four hours
later he was whispering to himself:
"Ten shousand dollars FIRST year. and
'er Bowsher strawberry takes 'er cake
over everything!' NJ. QUAD.
Truth Comes Home Slowly.
81 guess" said the wise old codger,
''the public must be satisfied that I've
been nothing but an old fossil for the
past twenty years or so."
"What led you to that conclusi0nT'
1.-The fact that I'm just beginning to
realize that I'm not as young as l used
to be."--Cnthoic Standard and Times.