PLAN No. 730. COW PROVIDES MUSIC LESSONS
In Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, lives a little girl who won in 1916 many prizes for farm club-work; enough in fact, to buy a calf. She sold the calf, which had grown into a cow, for $80. She plans to use the money for music lessons this winter while she is attending high school. She is proud that she is able to pay for the lessons by her own work.
Plan No. 730. The Country Girl’s Friend
PLAN No. 731. REAL ESTATE MAN BUYS SNAP
This man was engaged in real estate for years and stated that his best profit was made from special propositions that he discovered during the year.
Probably during the year he would find five or six different places that were exceptional purchases. He put but very little money in these investments as a rule, and would prepare them for early sale. He would paint the dwellings, arrange the yards, and put in trees, if needed, and if it was a farm he would wholly renovate the farm from one end to the other, painting the buildings and re-arranging the entire place. Some times it would take a year to get the farm into shape. He states that by this method, he earned as high as $2,000 to $3,000 a year.
His wife has been a very valuable assistant to him in this work, as she arranges the shrubbery and the general decoration of the house and yard for him.
PLAN No. 732. HE BOUGHT AND SOLD MERCHANDISE STORES IN THE COUNTRY TOWNS
When this man was in the university he took a literary course, but after finishing his college work, he took to business and enjoyed it thoroughly. He found quite an opportunity in the small country towns surrounding a northwestern city. He said the electric railway and railroads and automobile highways were becoming such a factor within a hundred miles of this city, and the advertising in the daily paper was practically putting out of existence the small town merchants. He said this was so manifest that many merchants were compelled to go out of business. Where he made his profits, was to buy the merchandise of these local merchants. He knew the value of their stock without making an inventory of the goods. He told them he would buy on his own judgment. Oftentimes on the purchase of the stock itself he would make more than $2,000. He would then start in, fixing up the store, rearranging everything about the place, putting in more new stock, and, as a result he made a few sales. He conducts the business for about a year and having obtained all the advantages and profits that a new store would enjoy, he gradually sells out and closes up the business.