The effect produced by this method was so artistic that he was offered a good salary to take charge of all such work in a large furniture store in the city, but there are hundreds of other places in this country where the same method can be employed with equally good results.
PLAN No. 524. HE JUST TRIMMED TREES
There was one man in Portland, Oregon, who was a competent and skilled tree trimmer. He knew all about shade trees, fruit trees, grape vines, shrubs, plants—everything that is worth saving and caring for in that line. He knew how and when they should be trimmed, and he obtained so much work that he was obliged to hire men to help him. But they had to be men who knew what they were about, or were willing to learn from him what they didn’t know, so that he soon had them trained to do the work as it should be done.
There are plenty of openings everywhere for real tree-trimmers.
PLAN No. 525. GEESE ON THE FARM
If farmers more generally realized the profits to be derived from the raising of geese, there would be many more in the country, and thousands of dollars more in the farmers’ pockets.
The wife of an Illinois farmer, who did realize how easy and economical it is to raise geese, and the profits they pay, in both flesh and feathers, made a specialty of them, and as a result of her foresight and enterprise always had money, while the other farmers’ wives were continually complaining of the lack of pin-money. At last a number of them followed her example, and raised geese in great numbers. The care and cost of geese are small, compared with the expense of raising other fowls. They rustle their own living off of land that is good for nothing else, though in the breeding and laying season this lady gave them shorts and Indian meal twice a day.
From 100 geese, this woman generally realized from $250 to $300 a year, which was nearly all profit. She made the profits increase her flocks, until she had several hundred, which brought her an excellent income every year.