Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03
Pocket Money.

Mn EDIToR I'll noticed tho article by
Sub Rosa in your issue Of November 10, apd
was struck by the pcrtinency of the writer's
remarks. Farmers women folks" are work.
ers 10 the hive, and when the usual duties
Of the day are done. aud the sewing, mend
ing and daruiug 6nished, they long for some
thing to do to earn spending money to use
as they please, no thanks to anybody. This
thing is often carried too far, aud too little
time is devoted to improving the mind, 10
reading the news Of the day, and especially
the agricultural paper which all good fran
ers take, and which is often neglected by
the fair portion Of the household because a
pittauce can be earned at braiding hats, or
"heeling and toeing shaker stockings" But
the fact remains that the wives and daugh-
tiers will have on hand some sort of work
which pays money. Aud the old maids
God bless them, who occupy the position OF
auht in the family are often neglected by
the keeper of the funds and are glad of some.
thing to do which is paid for.
How shall this want be supplied What
source Of profitable employment is open to
all the SISTERS" whether in or outside of the
granger | believe there is such a source of
profit open to all, and that it is peculiarly
adapted to women, that it will pay two hum
dred per cent in money, aud bring any
amount Of health and pleasure along with it.
refer to poultry raising. After the men have
provided suitable poultry houses and yards
and some good pure stock, the business can be
turned over to the women and wholly man.
aged by them. The fowls usually found on
tho farm are Of every sort of mixture
run out by years of breeding in aud
in, aud Of course don't pay. At the
south poultry raising is womans spe.
ciality as the writer knows by personal OBJ.
servation, aud her dependence for pocket
money, and it is not unusual for the woman
Of the farm house to realize from one to two
hundred dollars or more from her annua
sales. This beats "heeling and tocing stock.
ings" at starvation prices, all hollow, and il
far more attractive. can see more light
and chink in this direction than 10 making
dlckeys aud pillow shams or any other
shams. through the agency of the grange.
Farmers wives had better raise chickens
than run a sewing machine; it will pay better
and give them less side ache and back ache
There is not the least danger of Cutting the
market with eggs or dressed poultry. II
near village go in for breed famous as
layers aud all things considered, probably
the Leghorns are hest. If far from market
raise some large breed. Brahmas or Cochins
will make good use Of every handful Of corn
given them, and pound OF chicheu can be
produced at less cost than pound of hog.
Pure fowls bred up to the standard command
a high price and always will, aud if you can
not afford to start of with them, engage O
supply of eggs from some honest breeder Of
pure fowls The duughills will do for hatch
ing them, and after raising the chicks, clean
them all out of the way, and breed pure
fowls for spending money. Send sl.25 tC
II. ii, Stoddard, Hartford, Conn, for year.
subscription to the Poultry World; it viii
be worth $40 to you the first year. l insis
that the money received for eggs or chickens
belongs to you to do what you please with
and don't let the old gent gobble it, as has
been bis custom, and with reasonable success
you will have pocket money enough to make
you happy. f. G. b.
Beloos Falls, w., Nor 90, 1875.