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numbers and uses them over and over again at a small cost for each
performance.

Trucking Fruit from Florida

A

TRUCK farmer living near Menominee, Michigan, found the going rather
hard during the depression, and in trying to find ways and means of
bolstering up the family income, hit upon the idea of trucking fruit. The truck
he had been using to transport his garden produce was now standing idle
most of the time. His eldest son was also idle, having been unable to find any
work since he had finished high school. The truck and the boy were
accordingly dispatched to Florida to buy citrus fruits, and when the truck
returned loaded with fruit, he sold out all of it within a few days.

Until now, tropical fruits had been high in Menominee. Now that he could
sell them a little cheaper, the public bought him out each time the truck
returned from a trip. Before long he had four trucks running between Florida
and Menominee to supply the demand for fresh fruits. In addition, he opened
four stores to handle the produce brought in by his trucks. Two of these stores
are in Menominee, and two in Marinette, Wisconsin, which is just across the
river. His market, which takes in these two towns and the surrounding
territory, includes about 35,000 population.

How Money Can Be Made in Cemeteries

D

URING an automobile trip from his home in Kansas City to a near-by town,
Arthur T. Ruggles noticed several run-down cemeteries. “Here,” thought
Ruggles, “is an opportunity to make some money.” So he went to see the key
man on the board who had charge of one of the cemeteries.

This man was frank to admit the cemetery was in sad need of having the