THE FISH FARMER IN ACTION 



Snap-Shots by Bux. 



One who lived in a great city and had waxed fat, not 

 by iniquitous appropriation of the unearned increment 

 of which he found himself unable to deprive his land- 

 lord, but solely by means of the legitimate 25%, which 

 he lawfully collected from his service to his fellow men 

 in buying and selling the necessaries of life, read a scrap 

 of paper during one of those moments of seclusion from 

 the world, which offer all from kaiser to peasant an 

 opportunity to improve their minds, and what he found 

 recorded seemed good to him. That he should thus 

 have read when another might have simply done the 

 other thing shows him a man who knew an opportunity 

 when he saw it. So when he read that a fish might yield 

 9,000,000 of eggs at one delivery he said, "Why bother 

 with a paltry 25%? Back to the land for me and put 

 it under water as soon as I get there." 



So he bought him a farm and dug him a pond and 

 when the rain had filled it he dumped in all the fish, his 

 congressman friend could get a paternal government to 

 provide. Then with a stub of pencil and the back of an 

 envelope he sat down to figure and to wait. He is still 

 waiting, and the envelope is fuller of figures than the 

 pond is of fish. 



STOCK FARMING. 



But enthusiasm is contagious and his farmer neighbor 

 beholding said, "I will go and do likewise," as it is the 

 way of farmer neighbors to say and to do. "But why 

 bother to build a fish pond? I have a wood-lot where 

 no grass is and there is no underbrush nor low limbs 

 but much shade, and fresh air abundantly. I will fence 

 it tight and into it turn my breeding stock of cattle 

 and they will be no more care to me than my neighbor's 

 fish are to him. I may not get 9,000,000% but 100 or 

 even 50 are as much as a conscientious farmer ought 





