The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-12
THE KATIE RANCH BOOMING
(Rhamkatte ROaSter.l


We never knowed until this week
that by co-opperation we Gould git a
big industry here hat would put
millions ov dollars in our pockets
Whin the coaster eur out Friday
morning with tibet prospectus fer 4
Cat Ranch, which would make a
profit Of $4,000. per day, it walked up
folks en- the people rushed TO the
Rooster Office offerin' cities for Cat
Ranches n er wanting to put in
stock. Old man 1chabod Sykes said.
said he: Thar Amt no place IN
cat ranch as Rhamkatte and / have
got q piece ov land down thar side
ov Swift Creek that l will donate fer
a ranch if / cen git the promoters to
more'n that, there is enough cats in
my Ieighborhood to max a start
on He wasn't the only man. thar
was a duZzen or more down at the
office ov the editter, offering cites and
Others wantin' to by stock.
Letters cum in by every male. one
from Col. Mulberry Sellars from
Louisville, Ky, er sayin' that he
would like to take stock in the con
arm and be made promotin' Manager.
He said that his tempryment wuz jest
the kline er enterprise oV hat charac-
ter in the rite location fairly hum. 4
am an optimis,' he wrote, and l kin
talk so persWadin' like thet l kin sell
the stock as fas' as you kin print it
on your press. / he'd bin a-considerin'
this Cat Ranch Dizziness myself for
some time, but never could git a place
hat seemed to me to be ideely quail
fed fer to begin dizziness on. AS soon
as I seed that Rhamkatte wuz about
to make er offer, / said to myself it
will shore be a go. 1t pears to me
that the fellers who named Rham-
katie had in view the location ov a
cat 1anch or else why is the word
katie in their name? / am not so
sure it would not be a great idea in
your advertising fer to call it katie
Ranch, located at Rhamkatte." That
would be alliterative and attractive.
and would appel to the i~majinashun
ov the publik."
The endorsement ov this enterprise
by so distinguished a promoter and
leeder Ov his fnance as Col Mulberry
Sellars has enthused our people and
they air wanting to take all the stock
themselves and pay for it in lam or
cats and rats.
The plans air not yet completed,
but everybody who want to git in on
the ground floor must cum in quick,
cause we air going to sell this stock
quick and hev a CRATE celebration by
Christmas, and the Teller who don
git stock by thin, KANT git in. Fer
the information ov those who wish
to take stock, we will print below
agin the terms ov the prospectus:
To start with. we will collect about, say,
ONE THOUSAND 100000
eats. Each cat will average Twelve 12)
kittens a year. The skins will run from
Ten Cents zoe each for the white ones,
to Seventy five Cents G5c} for the pure
black. This will give us Twelve Million
12,OOO.VO) skins q year to sell at an aver
age of 80 cents apiece. making our Teve-
nue. about Ten Thousand Dollars s10,p0)
q day gross.
A man can skin 30 cats per day for two
dollars $1,000. 1t will take 100 men to
operate the ranch, and, therefore,. the net
profits will thus be Nine Thousand Eight
fiunoren 's3'Soop) Dollars per day.
We Will feed the cats on rats, and VIII
start a Rat Ranch next door. The rats
multiply four times as fast as cats. If We
start one Million rats i 100000 we Will
have therefore four rats per day for each
cat, which is plenty.
Now then, we Will feed the rats on the
OF the cats. from which the skins
nave been taken, giving each rat q fourth
of a cat.
1t VIII thus be seen that the business
VIII be Self-Supporting and automatic all
the way through. The eats will eat the
rats and the rats Will eat the eats. and
will get the skins.