much to start but he made $50 to $60 a week. His summer months on what his "bird dogging" turned up. He ran out of jobs in the fall and had to rely somewhat on Papa and odd jobs again. But he started fertilizing and lawn conditioning again in February of his second year and put an ad in a paper. Pretty soon he had more jobs than his spare time could handle and had some of his "Dorm buddies" help him. He had to buy more fertilizer spreaders and get more equipment. By April when he had to mow he had over 50 customers good for two to four jobs a month and about $400 gross income. That summer he made some savings and last summer he was making about $800 a month with four helpers.
This spring Clinton graduates but, as he is making more money than Papa, doesn't see any reason to give up his business, so he plans two more years in college for a Master's degree. He thinks he might just get a few more customers and manage the business only, hiring college boys to help him. He is not retired but he is certainly in an enviable position for a not yet graduated college boy. He has over $700 worth of equipment, his own car and a bank account.
Here's still another case history for you, Bob. I have two Dutch girls working for me. I got one thru the service of an entrepreneur and the second through the first girl. The entrepreneur justs acts as go between in getting European girls here for about $200 to $250 per week and keep which is about half the American domestic's charge if one can be procured. He charges $500 for his services, working through some agencies in Europe. But the thing he's proud of is the $1,000 he charges some guys to get a good German or Swedish wife over here for them. He keeps ads in several papers and must place two or three girls a week. He seems always to be going down to meet the boat.
Hope these help you and good luck with the book. It certainly should fill a need in this country of ours, too many people are going batty trying to keep up the pace.
Cordially Terry
I doubt if my friend Terry expected me to print his whole letter,
 
as was, but it was too good to miss. He himself would make as good an example as I could use in this book but unfortunately the little system he has worked out to escape from the rat-race and lead a full life is such that if I revealed it he would have a hundred competitors overnight and would undoubtedly lose his advantage.
I wish he had been able to give us more details on the "entrepreneur" who imported the Dutch servant girls, but there it is. I know of another fellow in somewhat the same line but he brings his girls up from Puerto Rico and has the advantage of not having the worry about passports, immigration and so forth since Puerto Ricans are American citizens.
I doubt if this field is overcrowded. Servants in the United States have become so expensive that even fairly well-to-do families find it impossible to keep them. If you lived in or near a community which would ordinarily call for servants you might well consider this method of helping your neighbors—at a profit.
CASE HISTORY No. 2. I wish I knew more of the details on this one, too, but I simply can't remember them all, not even the name of the man who dreamed it up. I was quite young at the time I met him, but even then was impressed by the manner in which he obtained a good livelihood with a minimum of effort. As a matter of fact, he had this little business back during the depression years and did very well indeed at a time when some 15 million others were unemployed and wondering where the next meal was coming from.
Let's call him Blake (his name was something like that). He lived in Kingston which is about a hundred miles up the Hudson River from New York City and at that time was a community of about 100,000 persons. Blake's father before him had been a job printer and Blake was taught the trade as a boy. Job printing at that time was as depressed as any other field and Blake couldn't look forward to any easy life by any means.
But after high school was completed he couldn't think of anything else in particular to do so he scraped together what money he could, bought himself a couple of used job presses and went into business.