American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-05-27
GETTING l C QUICK.

Our fathers discovered a long time ago that oil
and water would not mix, but their sons and their
sons sons are still strong in the faith that they
can put their brand on a lot of business
and-philanthrophy mavericks. We look through a
periscope and see this animal over the next range
OF mountains, where the greener pastures always
grow, and see her feeding on the pasture of easy
money through which flows the stream of much
for-little. She has veins as big as a stove pipe,
milk wells like unto a bucket and an udder like
q hogshead.
The farther we get away from a business propo-
sition, the larger its profits appear to be, it is
easiest to sell shares in a concern where the ideas
OF profits are highest, and hence shares in the
mercantile scheme for large profits for stockhold-
es are sold not to men familiar with this line of
business. A new crop of promoters have organized
farming propositions and are now finding a rich
field among business and professional men who
know least about profits from farming.
Business men have found the literature put out
by promoters selling stock in business concerns
as highly amusing and now it is the farmers turn
to enjoy prospectuses. We are all familiar with
the thousand dollar an acre fruit promotion litera-
ture, and how they have taken up hogs which next
to poultry, offer the most fertile field for a man
with a good lively imagination. Prof. C. S. Plum,
In a recent issue of the Breeders Gazette quotes
from one of these get rich quick schemes for those
who know least about farming. The proposition
covers a thirty-seven thousand acre hog farm. A
paragraph from it reads as follows:
Take hogs, for example, a good SOW will raise
live litters of pigs every two years. Say each litter
averages only seven pigs Il have seen them aver
age ten and twelve). The five litters that you get
from one SOW total thirty-fiye pigs. They'll run
about half females. Within a years time the
young sows will add their contribution to the pig
population. Statistics show that one average
common or garden variety SOW and her offspring
will, with ordinary luck, produce twenty-eight
thousand pigs In five years" Healthy pigs! 1t
would be a shame to stop without one more para
graph from this interesting circular.
Keep these porkers until they are a year old
and they weigh three hundred pounds. 1 can sell
them in any market for $25 each. Figure the prof
Its. The original investment SIS. In two years
time she raises five litters of pigs, averaging sew
en- to each litter or a total of thirty-five pigs.
Then sell these pigs when one year old for $25
each getting 1915 back. OF course the hogs will
need to be cared for and fed in order to grow and
thrive, but / wont need to buy a lot of expensive
turn them loose to feed on acorns-wonderful hog
fattening food. Lots of hogs in this country are
never fed grain, but are turned into good pork by
letting them root for their own living. But even
II 1t was necessary to buy feed, which l don't be-
heve it will be, there is margin for a great profit.
DO you know of any other business where a man
can start with an investment of s25, get your mon
ey back and $3.50 besides in two years?"
Professor Plum very frankly says that he does
MT know of any other kind of business where
such results may be found. There would appear
to be just one element of risk in this stock farm"
and that is just about the time they get things
going good there will be a demand for the govern
ment to regulate it like they do the railroads, the
express companies and the like.-Rural Spirit.