TUT? TurTr.
THE MOKXIXR ASTORIA N. ASTOKIA, OHKGON.
Mr. Bowser's
Dairu Farm
Philosopher Figures Out That
There Is a Fortune In
Keeping Cow.
WIFE VETOES HIS PLAN
She Te!l of a Lot of Expense That
Her Lord and Master Has Over
looked In Estimate.
(Copyright. lf. by E. C. Fareells.
HArrEMNG to look out of the
window tlio other day an hour
before Mr. Bowser's time for
coming home, Mrs. Bowser
caught sight of him and a strange man
walking up and down aa If viewing
the bouse. When they bud finished
with the front they went around to
the alley, and it was almost an hour
before the man went away and Mr.
Bowser entered the house.
"Well, is it another eowf he was
asked.
"My dear Mrs. Bowser," he replied,
la a paternal way and with a broad
mile on his face, "I have some new
to delight you. Tomorrow I expect to
complete negotiations for the exchange
of this house for a farm. You know I
have been hoping to make an exchange
for the last five years."
"We will talk it over," said Mrs.
Bowser, as she motioned him to a chair.
"Yes, we will talk It over, but you
can't possibly find any fault I have
got facts and figures right down pat to
prove to you that it will be the best
deal of our Jives."
"What sort of a farm is it?"
Wanted a Dairy Farm.
"A dairy farm, my dear. I have
given up the idea of chickens. It Is a
dairy farm of eighty acres, and we
hall exchange even up. The man la
j-
I SHALL PUT IT TP IN FA.VCT CAKES.
so anxious to get into the city to edu
cate his daughter that he will make
most any s;icrifii. Now listen to me.
I start in the dairy business with
thirty cows. The milk can be estimat
ed at S'X) quarts per day. If sold at 5
cents a q-r.rt to the c:x'..uK-ry t litre I
15 a day, or 5105 per week. All we
have to do Is to deliver the milk and
take a check. 1 shall sell only half the
milk, however. The remainder will be
made into butter. I shall put it up in
fancy cakes ;;nd call it 'Bowser's Best.'
The sales will amount to about S3 per
day, and on the sour milk aud whey I
shall fatten about fifty higs during the
year. When these are marketed the
total income per week for the year will
be about 13. We will call It $7,000
per year. We live well, have the bene
fit of the country air and make $7,000
per year, cud if you have got any fault
to find with that you must be hard to
please. .Such a bargain as this man is
willing to ;.'ive me can't be picked up
once in a hundred years. What do you'
think of it?"
"You start with thirty cows?"
queried Mrs. Bowser.
"From thirty to thirty-five."
"They are on the farm and part of
the bargain, are they?"
"Why, no. I must buy them."
"Oh, I see. Has the farm a barn for
cows?"
"I-I don't think bo, hut I can build
one."
Mr. Bonier Mukc-a Eatlniatea.
"Of course. Let us see. Thirty good
cows will cost you $1,200. To build a
dairy barn will cost you at least $800
more. There is $2,000 to start with
Had you figured on that?"
Mr. Bowser swallowed away at his
Adam's apple and began to turn pale.
"To run a dairy of thirty cows you
Will have to hnve two men. Tbey must
Bulk, feed, drive the milk to the cream
ery, etc. You can figure on $50 per
month as wages, aud, of course, you
must board them. You must add $000
to the $2,000 In the first year" ex
penses. Has the farm got at least
thirty acres of good grass land?"
"I I didn't ask about that but of
course It has."
"Well, If it has you are all right for
the summer. What about the winter?
Those cows must be fed from Novem
ber to May. Each one will consume
from two to three tons of hay. What
about sixty or seventy tons of hay and
the soft feed in addition?"
"Woman, what are you trying to get
at?" shouted Mr. Bowser, ag he pound
ed on the table with his list.
"The actual state of affair" b re
plied. "There will lie at least one
month out of twelve when half your
cows will be farrow or nursing their
calves. Have yon figured out that Ion
of inllkr
"But the calves alomt will net me a
thousand dollar a year."
What It Would lllm.
"Theu you are greater than the beef
trtift. If every one of your thirty
cows had a calf, the thirty calves
might bring you $200, but no more. Iu
figuring on the expenses of the first
year we will say that your hay and soft
feed cost you $1,700. That Is a very
close estimate. You must buy a team
of horses, wagou, milk cans, palls,
churns, etc. You mint allow at least
$500 for these things."
"Xot on your life! Not If I know
how to cipher! Why, you must take
me for the biggest fool In the state!" j
"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 may le alllug or die.
The price of hay may go up. Instead
of $123 per week, yon should figure on
$73. Out of this, even after you get
started, must eotue the expenses of
feed, help and the keep of your team.
You will have to turn In aud work
yourself, and If there Is any 'Bowser's
Best' butter made you will have to al
low me au extra girl In the bouse.
Don't bob around on your chair now,
but figure as a business man."
Figures Enconrav Itowsvr.
"Don't tell me that I am bobbing
around!" shouted Mr. Bowser, so loud
ly that he was heard In the next house.
"One wonld think you were talking to
an infant. I say you are wrong from
beginning to end. I tell you there's at
least $3,000 a year clean profit In this
thing for me, but of course you want
to knock It in the head If you can. By
thunder, ivhat a Jackass I am ever to
alt dowt and talk to you about business."
"I dou'i think yon have lost anything
by It," quietly replied Mrs. Bowser.
"However, If you think I am wrong,
please show n:e where, fan you buy
cows for less thau $10 apiece? Haven't
you got to have-a barn? Haven't you
got tc !,.;' ' .'p? Haven't you got to
have t. V Toll me where my tigurea
are too high."
"What"? the use? You don't waut to
be convinced, and v" won't lie. I am
offered the opportunity of my life, and
you stand In the way ami try to make
me out an Idiot."
"ion 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."
"I'll bring you figures from a man
who has run a dairy farm himself and
made $10,000 a year 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 butcher's. He had often heard
that the butcher was formerly a dairy
farmer, aud that his sole object In sell
ing out and moving Into town was to
educate his son In telling the difference
between a knockkneed horse and a
comic opera. He found the butcher
smoking his pipe and meditating, and
he began:
"Mr. Bones, didn't you used to run a
dairy farm somewhere';"
"I think so," was the cautious an
swer. "And you made $10,000 a year?"
"I have been charged with so doing."
"Well, now, knowing me as you do,
what would you advise In my case? I
can trade my bouse and lot for a dairy
farm."
"How many acres?"
"Eighty."
"How many cows?"
"As many as I want to buy. I thought
of starting with thirty."
"How's the cow barn?"
"There isn't any."
"What's your experience?"
"Haven't bud any."
liutrlier I)Ucoaraii- Flan.
"Mr. Bowser," said the butcher, as
he rose up and got behind the meat
block, "go into the business of raising
jackasses. You have hail experience
and can't help tut make a success."
There would have been a row had
not a couple of women customers come
In. Mr. Bowser was forced to post
pone the bloodletting to another time,
and he went out and wandered up and
down the street with bent head and
back humped up. His dairy had soured
on him. His "Bowser's Best" would
never be on the market. He would
never rub the backs of cows or fondle
their calves. And men and women
who took notice of hire whispered to
each other:
"Say, that's Bowser, that is, and
Mrs. Bowser's got the better of him
again." M. QUAD.
SOLOMON HAMBURGER.
Largait 0Ur in Cigars Diet at Hit
Chicago Resldsnot.
CHIC-ACIO, Nov, J.-Jtolomon limn
burger died unexpectedly yesterday of
heart failure, following an operation,
Mr. Hamburger was one of the best
known men In the clgur and tobacco
business In the country. A mouth a no
Mr. Hamburger and his family re
turned from a trip around the world
Mr, Hamburger was a member of
the Standard ana Illinois Athletic
clubs, lie took an active Interest In
philanthropic work, He was horn In
Bavaria In 1S57.
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Inquire at 100 ISth ft. lO lltf
And now the hamrmvk act end and
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LA'INDRIES.
An Invariable Role.
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Did you kill this chicken or did !t
file?
Mr. Potts 'positively,-When I kill a
chicken it inwarhiblv dirs, :-ir.
HIkM I..
Parishioner
la bonds, Mr. Tin:!
rastor Only Dm
rent.
A liter,
"In she so v:'y
"Oh, very. Vl.
rUen she wan oi.i
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T0PEKA, KANSAS.
NOTICE FOR BIDS.
Rbls arc hereby nked for the com
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terior flnlxh of the new I'ourt Hotme.
Rlda to Include wlrlntr itnd plumbing,
but not hi-atln(r. Sal I bulbllntr to b
roinplted In Iti-i -ordolic- with the
plans and npeclrb .it bom 01 rib- In the
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bids. l!y order of the County Court,
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County clerk.
Aatorla, Oretfon, November 9. 1'jnr,,
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