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An Ohio Cold Storage House. 



COLD STORAGE A NECESSITY. 



]^Ir. Clark Allis, Medina, X. Y.. Commercial Orchardist (500 

 acres in apple), and President Xezu York Fruit Groivers Asso- 

 ciation. 



^Ir. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : The reason I have been 

 studying lately on the storage problem is because the buyer seems 

 to have a corner on the storage question, with us. and wants a large 

 share of the profit. What I say may not be right or to the point, but 

 it is as I have found it. I saw a clipping in a paper this week in 

 which the opportunity is so great that I am not sure but some of our 

 fruit growers had not better go into this instead of fruit growing. 



Millions in It. 



A brilliant plan for getting rich is being worked out by an 

 enthusiastic promoter. Only the chance to buy stock in it ("tele- 

 graph your order!") remains. The company is to operate a laree 

 cat ranch near Oakland, California. To start wnth, the promoter will 

 collect about 1,000,000 cats. Each cat will average twelve kittens 

 a year. The skins will run from 10 cents each for the white ones 

 to 75 cents for the pure black. This will give 12,000,000 skins a 

 year to sell at an average of 30 cents apiece, making a rcA-enue of 

 about Sio.ooo a day gross. A man can skin fifty cats per dav for 

 $2. It will take one hundred men to operate the ranch, and there- 

 fore the net profit will thus be $9,800 per dav. The cats will feed 

 on rats and a rat ranch will be started next door. The rats multi- 

 ply four times as fast as cats. One million rats will give four rats 



