CATS AND RATS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 25, 16 December 1919, Page 3

CATS AND RATS.

An enterprising American. ha s just put out the following "proposition": 1 am contemplating organising a company for the purpose of starting a cat ranch, the cats to be killed for 'i.heirfur. The ranch will bo located near Pawnee.

To start with, we will collect 1,000,000 cats. Each cat will average 12 kittens per year. The skins sell from 10 cents each, for the white ones to 75 cents for the pure black. This will give us 12,000,00!) skins per year, which, at an average of 30 cents each, will make our revenue about 10,000 dollars per day. gross. A man. catu skin .50 cats per day for two dollars. It will take about 100 men to operate the ranch, and therefore tho net profit will be about 9800 dollars per day. We will feed the cats on rats, and will start a rat ranch next door. The rats will multiply four times as fast a s the cats; therefore, if we start with 1.000,000 rats, we will have four rats per day for eaoh cat, which is a-plenty. Then We. will feed the rats on the carcases of the cats from which the skins have been taken, giving each rat a quarter of a cat. It will thus'he seen that the ranch will be self-sustain-ing. The eats will eat the rats, and the rats will eat the eats, and we will get the skins.