Profitable Non
p. 41 · Read in the full issue
Production
T'HE following reference to the limita tion of production in the United States is self-explanatory: “I have a friend who has received a Government cheque for 1000 dollars, this year, for not raising hogs. He now pro poses to get a farm and go into the business of not raising hogs; in fact, not raising hogs appeals to him very strongly.
“Of course, he will need a hired man, and that is where I come in. I write to you as to your opinion of the best kind of farm not to raise hogs on, the best strain of hogs not to raise, and how best to keep an inventory of the hogs you are not raising. Also do you think capital could be provided by issuance of a non hog-raising gold bond?
“My friend who got the thousand dol lars got it for not raising 500 hogs. Now, we figure we might easily not raise 1500, or even 2000, hogs; so you see the pos sible profits are only limited by the num ber of hogs we do not raise.
“My friend who received the thousand dollar cheque has been hog-raising for 40 years, and the best he ever made was 400 dollars a year. Kind of pathetic, to think how he wasted his life raising hogs, when not raising them would have been so much more profitable.”