Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-09-22
News Items,


A Dauphin county woman writes her
experience in farming, TO the Harris
burg Telegraph, as follows-We live
about five miles from Harrisburg, Pa,
which has marke. for butter, eggs,
poultry, and vegetables equal to, if
not superior to New York city. AS l
said before, We have but about one
hundred acres of land, not the best but
abou: the average in this section. |
sold off the farm last year $500
worth of produce and marketing, l
did not keep an account of what | rais-
ed, only what i sold. Ny expenses
and taxes were about 5000, leaving
me a balance of about 500. This
was not very large Pay it is true, but
l do not think shall run the machine
to pieces at that rate. | sold of wheat
$500, and of corn Si00, four head of
cows at an average of $50 per head, l
raised these cows in previous years,
but l raised the same amount this year
or started to raise them, which means
the same); FIVE veal calves for SIS per
head one fat hog for S25 700 pounds
of butter for $500 450 dozen of eggs
at nearly Sl00; about 80 worth of
chickens in the market; thirty turkeys
aud geese at $50; the other $3.50 /
received for wool, potatoes, apples,
cider, feathers and different things sent
to the market when the butter and eggs
were sent. paid $500 for two hired
men and boarded them paid another
500 for extra hands in harvest, and
boarded them also also paid $50 in
taxes, and $50 blacksmith bill for
shoeing horses, mending broken plows
aud other implements (using no oxeD) !;
my grocery bill averaged me 81 per
week my dry goods bill was very light
the present year. had no help in the
house at all except what my mother did
tshe being sixty years old); we did all
the milking the men do no milking in
this Statel all The cooking for all the
men and attended to all the poultry,
besides doing all going to market, one
of the men going along generally to
drive the horses. Yet l think | can
show as clean and neat house Is any
one IN the State q do not mean to be
understood as fine a one, but in as
good order). have all the conven-
ienees of fuel and water very near at
hand, which, by the way, is half of
womens work. / think l have done
Fery we'll. | never expect to be John
j. Astor in wealth, but if half The wo-
men in the United States had been edu-
Gated in the school that l have, there
would not be the misery that there is
among my sex. The majority of girls
in these days are taught to make ruffies,
instead of butter and bread, and to
J~,ro 81 k~ox6 are n 4 br.h.,J- - a.
grog-shOps, or perhaps worse places,
with their silly nonsense 4; being too re-
fined entirely to make an honest dollar
by honest work. / have driven the
horses many day on the reaper or
mower to supply the place of lacking
hand IN a busy time, while my mother
did the cooking for all. did the milk
ing in the evening, and In the morning
before began the days work. This is
no fancy sketch, but true tale, and !
only wish we had few less women that
look upon farmers, farmers wives and
daughters with contempt.-Efie Grey,
Hill Top, Pa.
This incident is related by the Cham
bersburg Opinion On Thursday of
last week, a merchant on his way from
to McConnesburg, was
robbed on the top of mountain. The
highwayman stopped the travellers horse
and demanded the loan of two dollars.
He was informed that the mountain vas
no place to loan money, but the robber
was of different opinion and convinced
the traveller that the occasion was an
appropriate one, by threateningly ex-
hibiting dagger or knife. This had
the desired effect upon the traveller, who
was helpless and had no weapons of de-