EXPENSIVE AND ELABORATE QUARTERS. 



Breeding cages may be very elaborate, very costly, very beautiful. You 

 can exercise any degree of taste and invest any amount of money in fitting up 

 suitable homes for your larvae. There are farms in Europe whose conservatories, 

 exotic shrubs and trees, exquisite cages and paraphernalia represent an expendi- 

 ture of hundreds of thousands of dollars. A single butterfly raised in one of these 

 palatial establishments is said to have sold for $5,000. European correspondents 

 have sent us photographs and descriptions of breeding cages and breeding quar- 

 ters that are so elegant and attractive that I am led to wonder why all millionaires 

 do not embellish their grounds with these magnificent attractions. If grand con- 

 servatories are considered desirable adjuncts to a perfectly appointed mansion, 

 if aviaries of rare song birds and those with beautiful plumage are delightful ac- 

 quisitions, if magnificent aquariums lend their charms to entertain and instruct, 

 why should not elaborate quarters be provided for the rearing and appropriate 

 display of God's most enchanting creatures, the gorgeously colored moths and 

 butterflies? 



Could anything be imagined which would out-vie in splendid beauty and 

 fascinating loveliness the possible attractions of a butterfly farm artistically fitted 

 up and maintained, in which the inexpressible splendors of native and exotic 

 lepidoptera could enthrall beholders? If "thrills" are largely sought by the wealthy 

 for the entertainment of their guests, why do not decorators study the possibility 

 of butterfly palaces for the embellishment of the residences and grounds of million- 

 aires? If you and I can propagate such starthngly beautiful creatures with a few 

 jelly glasses, bottles, jars, boxes, barrels and trays, what could be produced with 

 unlimited means and opportunity? I am rather "short" on millionaire friends; 

 perhaps you had better suggest this idea to some of yours. 



(N. B.— TO ENABLE ME TO GIVE MY PERSONAL IN- 

 STRUCTION BY LETTER TO EACH PUPIL THE CORRESPOND- 

 ENCE CgURSE WILL BE LIMITED. ONLY A SMALL EDITION 

 OF "THE BUTTERFLY FARMER" IS PUBLISHED, AND ALL 

 SUBSCRIPTIONS DURING THE YEAR WILL BEGIN WITH VOL. 

 I, NO. 1). 



Address all letters: (MISS) XIMENA McGLASHAN, 



Truckee, California. 



