The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19
A WOMAN FARMER.
She Finds Raising Vegetables n Profitable
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She Finds Raising Vegetables u Profitable
and Pleasant Occupation.
For the past six years Miss Mary f.
Cutler has carried on farm in Hollis
ton. Mass The farm was bought in
1871 byher father, who made speciality
of the nursery business. Miss Cutler.
however, has been gradually drifting
away from her fathers speciality, and
now pays much attention to the raising
of vegetables for the enterprising man.
ufacturing villages roundabout Miss
Cutler superintends the farming. keeps
the books hires the help and directs
what snail be done day by day. She
does not by any means make drudge
of herself but finds time for occasional
travel and the exercises of her taste in
literature and art She plays the piano
and paints.
The farm contains 6S acres in all. but
only 10 are under cultivation. Miss
Cutler believes that one of the first es-
sentials of success in this kind of bust
ness is having a good-looking team:
consequently markct-garden wagon,
built expressly for the purpose, with a
pair of good horses, is employed in dis
posing of the produce of the farm. all
of which is sold within circuit of not
over six miles. From July to Novem-
Ter the team makes daily trips. earlier
in the season semi-weekly. Her sue
cess is due both to the quality and the
uniformity of the produce and to the
fact that her customers can rely upon
her team calling upon them with posi-
tive regularity.
Miss Cutler intends to work the land
for all it is worth and to have two crops
a year in nearly every case. Planting
is going on every week through the
whole season to secure n succession of
crops or two crops per season. Squash
and hungarian follows early potatoes,
with such other notifications as the
season and the condition of the soil de-
mands. Strawberries, blackberries
and currants are also grown in consid-
cradle quantities. There are also
orchards of apples, peaches and grapes.
In the early spring the greenhouses
and hot beds come into use. and as
there are some 1900 square feet under
glass on the farm, this gives an oppor-
tunity for hiring help the year round,
and Miss Cutler finds that she gets bet
ter employees by making yearly con-
tracts with as many as possible; green
house work in the winter. hot-beds in
the early spring, to say nothing of Win
ter jobs in cutting the wood and clear
ing unreclaimed land, furnish abund-
ant occupation for three or four men
the year round, although it is neces-
sary to hire some extra hands through
the summer.-Springfield Republican.
| Woman's standard.
| The woman who carves on wood
models in clay, paints, studies mathe.
MATES, botany or music, has little time
to spend gossiping with her neighbors
or fretting over trifles. She finds a rest
and recreation in those pursuits which
lifts her above the monotony of house.
hold duty and keeps her young She
has an ambition. in itself meritorious.
to do something worthy, and when she
has done it. it is only right that the
world should approve and pay for the
| product of her labor. both in fame and
in cash, and she asks no standard of
judgment but that of excellence Chi
caro Graphic.