A gardener in Los Angeles, who had experimented in many ways with vegetables of all kinds, discovered that carrots can be made a very satisfactory substitute for eggs. He boils, mashes and presses them through a coarse cloth or hair strainer, and uses them in making a pudding by introducing the pulp among the other ingredients of the pudding, using no eggs whatever. A pudding thus made is not only much lighter, but much more palatable than one in which eggs are used.
The results were so satisfactory, when used in his own home, that he at once wrote out full instructions for preparing the carrots, had 1,000 copies printed, and advertised to mail the information for 50 cents. He received so many remittances that his 1,000 copies were soon all used up, and several thousand more were printed. To-day he is in receipt of an income that makes him a good living, simply through letting other people know about his discovery, and having them pay for it. But it is well worth the price.
PLAN No. 549. FATTENING HOGS ON HAY
How many farmers know that hogs can be fattened on hay? One farmer in eastern Washington knew it, and made profitable use of his knowledge, not only in fattening his own porkers at a small expense, but in supplying the information to other farmers. This is the secret of it:
Providing himself with a cutting-box, he cut very green hay short, mixed it with bran, shorts or middlings, and fed it the same as other feed. Hogs soon become fond of this, especially when soaked in swill or other slops. In the winter he fed his hogs the same kind of hay that he fed his horses, and they fattened on that as rapidly as on anything that could be given them, even corn or shorts.
Convinced that he had made an important discovery, he advertised in a number of farm and stock journals that for 50 cents he would send full information regarding the fattening of hogs by a new method, and received hundreds of replies containing enclosures. So many of these came in that they afforded him a steady and comfortable income, besides the greatly increased profits derived from fattening his hogs at a comparatively trifling cost.
PLAN No. 550. MADE MONEY WITH VACUUM CLEANER
While everyone recognizes the value of a vacuum cleaner in the removal of dust and dirt from house furnishings, comparatively few people own them, as it requires considerable of an outlay to buy one, and more or less exertion to operate it.
A young woman in a western city, who was in the habit of thinking matters over for herself, thought she saw an opportunity in this fact to make a little money for herself by relieving people of these expenditures, and she therefore bought one of the best makes of vacuum cleaners, on the installment plan, and started out to build up a little business of her own.
Calling at a number of homes where she had reason to believe there was not one of these conveniences, she secured several contracts, on her first day’s canvass, to come once a week and give the house a thorough going over with her machine, at a stipulated price per hour. Figuring that she could perform this service satisfactorily in two average homes each day, she continued soliciting until she had twelve permanent patrons, and then began her work.