Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-11-25
Women Farmers.


according to the Rochester Union, live two
very singular people. The question whether
women can make good lecturers, doctors, pro-
fessors or store-keepers, is now, by many, con-
ceded on the score of practical demonstration; and
the cases TO which we refer may be probably
cited in behalf OF the fitness of women to sue
coed, unaided, in agriculture. Slipping down in
emerald turf to the lake there lie, afirms our
authority, two beautiful farms which have been
entirely worked out of primitive wildness by
women. Tie owners are two sisters, daughters
of pioneer named Fuller, who, more than q
half century ago, made his way into the
forest regions surrounding the romantic lakes
of interior of New York. AT his death he
left his children land but little else. and the two
girls, Laura and Electa, resolved to become
farmers Both are now past 60, and, since
early womanhoOd. they have cultivated their
grounds with their own hands. Each has a
smiling farm and a snug cottage, the latter
nesting among shade trees, close TO the edge
of the lake. The land, bearing 'fruit, grass and
other crops" stretch far away up the rolling
hill. The editor of the journal named has lately
interviewed" the propriet0rs, and tn became
aware of the facts he has made public. .sAn
about" he says, CLOCKS thrifty" and the farm
work appears to be thoroughly and judiciously
done. Miss Laura Fuller was first called upon.
This lady wears "a short and rather loosely-flt-
ting dress, hood and a pair of mems boots"
She has ga beard as heavy as is often seen upon
man, and voice that would not be mistaken
for that OF woman" She is "tolerably well
formed, /" and showed that her heart was in her
vocation. That she plies it without masculine
help and with decided prosperity is unauestion-
able. Her sister Electa is, however, regarded
as the best manager and .'most business
found this lady to have much the appearance
OF her sister, but she is "mOre dignified and pa
triarshial, with head considerably bald, and
locks whitened by the frosts of many winters"
Miss Fuller, we are assured, cut away the yir-
gin forest that once covered her farm with her
own hands. All the toll that was needed TO
bring the land into condition, she pertor med,
solitary and alone. She has reared stock ct ali
kinds, "ncluding fine horses and colts TOR which
a great fancy has been taken" The wild beasts
that formerly infested her neighborhood, this
Diana of the wilderness herself slew; and rumor
has IL "that men who had presumed to trifie with
Electa, had fallen as did the beasts and trees"
We take it for granted, however, that this is
one of those delicate exaggerations which the
world is so prone to invent for persons at all
eccentric, and that wood and fur have been the
only victims to Miss Eiecta's bow and spear.
Out Door Cellars,
Having built two out door cellars and used
them for upwards OF twelve years, 1 shall ven
ture an answer to the inquiry OF s. C. w. on the
subject Of their construction, i. e., tell him how
1 constructed mine.
In the first place, selected the most elevated
house, measured off NV ground. the size desired
my cellar, threw out the dirt to the depth of two
feet. Commenced a double brick wall at the
base of the excavation, leaving vacant space of
six inches between the walls, which were tied at
the corner and several places in the Sides being
careful, however, to leave vacant places or vent
holes, to admit free circulation of air through
out the length and breadth of the walls. The
height of the walls when completed nine feet
from base to top. The surplus dirt, banked up,
on outside four feet in height. Floor overhead,
two thicknesses OF well seasoned, matched floor
ing, and the whole covered with good pine
shingles; double doors and windows, with a fiue
extending upwards and at the top of the build
ing, to allow impure air to escape, completed
my building-all but plastering. For this /
used or rather put on, two coats of cement, coat
ing the entire floor, extending up six feet on the
all or no pf wall md NJ rhao1
lime and sand. The last one constructed leaked,
or rather let in some water, owing to the wet
nature of the ground where il stands, and run
a pipe through il and extended the drain to a
small ravine not far distant.
These CELLARS l have used for upwards of
twelve years and ever found them sure deposit
tories for fruits and vegetables in winter, and
for milk, butter, &C., in summer--A. c. AcLdin,
an Pr. Farmer.