The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-15
CAPPY KICKS
He Diseourses on the City Men Who Think
They Are Farmers
Written fOr Tho Star BY Peter u ynooher Coming Ne1t

ls money and pointed cut 20 him the
saving IN time rni,shg n purs-bred
hog 90 maturity Ito looked az me
sadly. rquirted a thin amber stream
over my shoes aud raid YEARLY !,
whats time 90 a hoEr"
"oh. then you've been a mnaiic
too. chs" Rodrll iserod.
Practically al well-to-do men Who
have been raised on a farm yearn 10
prove 60 their own satisfaction that
farming and stuck raising can he
mado 10 pay SO they take a chance
/ was raised on a farm. 40 I had 10
invest las a pure bred stock farm.
Just 20 prove I am no better than
the average, on that subject. I'm a
Waking encyclopedia, and " you don't
think I've paid for my education.
drive down 90 my ranch some day
and IN give you a look az the books T"
Cappy settled back In his chair.
before you two harmless lunatlea
sink another dollar IN your hobbies
come and give my place tho once
over. 1 have spent nearly half n
million dollars on a. ! own diamond
studded cows and pearl-inlaid swine
and every available spot on the COW
harm walls u plastered with blue rib
hons Every time I breed COW
that's worth 5000 have TO KIN
her because she has developed bovine
tuberculosis Every time 1 develop a
grand champion boar or SOW they
eat sand out % pure cuNsedness and
de % intestinal trouble I have
wonderful five. gated saddle horses
that should sell az auction for a
couple Of thousand dollars each and
" hen / puu or an auction I'm lucky
u I got sufficient 10 nay for their
hoard aud education. II l raise tur-
keys for the Thanksgiving market.
figuring ON a shortage OF Thanksgiy.
ms turkeys that year. there Ia no
shortage and tho market slides from
under me II my market caloula-
tiona arc figured correctly. all Of my
turkeys die Of tho pip IN October"
You haven't got the right man
running your place. Cappy," Gus
Rcdell declared 'Ge. yourself n first
class manager. pay him n good sai.
ary and percentage OF the profits
and your troubles viii ccare"
"a high class manager knows IN
advance there aren't going 10 be any
profits-not when a city man Is hlu
boss and comes down Co look him
over twlco ~ lth. So no tries
earning Twins az something else.
Gus. when your manager knows
you're standing back of HIN with q
bankroli. ready 60 cover all LOSERS. he
loses all Incentive 10 make profit,
Verify. No three arc what Bill Nye
described ~ aKriculturiata The -aE-
make their money In the
city and spend 1, Ia tho country.
while tho farmers makn theirs In
the country maybe--and spend Il in
tho city,
well. but you aren't living on
your farm. No wonder you operate
In rcd ink I'm on the job every
uish,. seeing that things 40 right"
yes. know After a loaE. hard
day In your office you travel an hour
ON the train and drive In an autpfno.
bile IS minutes homo. Then you
have dinner and after dinner you
ntFuli around and Look wise and be-
llrye everything your manager tells
sou, You can't do anything else. my
son. because you're monkeyinE with
a business you don't know anything
about. The oniY thrift youIl ever Get
out Of your farming operation In the
knowledge that you own a cowhnrn
or a horse stable or chickSn-house
you would have been ticklca 20
death 90 have lived IN yourself in
the old days ON your first farm. Gus.
before you get in too deep. look my
farm over III soil Il 10 you very
cheap. on any old terms. because the
only dividend III ever CLEAN from II
will be the saving IN income tar
when charge Off my agricultural
losHeA'
"Tlut don't you ever live ,here7r
Eddy Smith duerled.
Cappy shuddered. NO. Eddy. there
are too many frogs there. and In the
cleaning while I'm walking around
smoking and looking wise and criti-
cal. those tarnatlon frogs talk 20 me.
II took me years 90 learn their lingo.
But eventually | began 10 under
stand Boys. do you know there arc
only two words TO the frog language
on any farmland particularly on a
city mans farm
Mo. didn't know that. cappy."
said Eddy Smith. what are they7"
RED Ink: Red Ink" Cappy croak.