The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-26
STURDY PESYsFLTiNI4 WOMEN
For Whom tho Fields. Woods, md Stream,
Yield sport and Front.

For Whom tho Fields. Woods, md Streams
Yield sport and Front.
SCRANTON. Nov. 25-Mrs Adclla Niver makes
q good living at her home In Elkland township
out OF things that would go to waste II It
wasn't for her industry. Every spring she
taps fifty or sixty maple trees near her house.
gathers and bOils the sap into syrup herself.
and sends the product to market In tin cans
holding gallon each. At the end OF the sap
season. Mrs. Niyer begins to pick wintergreen
berries on the neighborng ridges for the city
markets. Last spring she gathered two bar
rels OF the bright red and fragrant wild fruit
1t took many hours OF hard. backaching work
to pick the delicious berries she said. but she
sold them at the rate OF eight cents quart
and got we'll paid for her labor. Later in the
season the Industrious woman dug several
bushels OF ginseng and Rold-thread roots
in tho woods. which she sold at fair
prlceA There is a good demand for these
roots at all times. and she could have found q
ready sale, she said for ten times AS many II
she had had them. She also digs quite guam
tlty Of sassafras and sarsaparii!a roots every
year, but they don't fetch as good prices as the
gold-thread ana ginseng.
Ia August Mira Niyer gathered wagon load
OF Goneset on q moist piece oil iahu. shste
boneset was live feet tall, and she pressed it
into bales and sent II away TO tie sold. she
gets little money out Of the spearmlnt ana
quantities OF pennyroyAi and NORWOOD. All
the farmers In the neighborhood let eatnlo
grow on their places for Mrs. Nyer 10 gather.
and she cuts and dries II when 1t Is in blossom.
Ia late June and early July she picked Two
bushels Of hald straHberriss TO sell. and later
she gathered and sold 300 quarts OF red rasD-
berries and hlAokbeTTies.
This fall Mira Niver made a few dollars out
the ridges within half a mile OF her house, and
when the frost opened the buTrs she sprehl
sheets and blankets and eoverIets under ne
trees, anu GOT boys TO CLIMB up ana SNAKE lhs
limbs. Tho nuts fell upon the sPread-out ned
clothing and II was an easy thing to empty
Nver gathered fys or six bushels Of the tooth,
some nuts, the most Of which she sOId loF ~
Miss Isabel Pelmatier OF Hunters. Range.
sullivan county has shot more ruled grouse
thls ILll than any three men In the region 4hd
lalmatisFs male neiRhhOrs. She Is more en-
thusiastic ~ the sport than any 81 them. now
ever; 1ul' although she Is only ~ years ga.
she has done some remarkable wing shooting
IN the brush this fall, Miss palmatieT owns
Ehe NysHgl heller that shs calls bsAE ahs
she goes nNcld with her eager AMI glossy pet
ana shoots grouse over him. she carries a
inE shotgun and the bird that gets away from
hhTr mas got 20 DC mighty quick and cunning
Mss PlaaueI mas Killed over siAty GIoqse 10
'front.' oi Nst5Ar since the season opehed nine
~ one afternoon being her highest score.
Three years age Miss PalmatieI had never
sport out Of bird shooting that she made up
her mind TO learn to shoot aud Il wasn't long
before she was q match for either Of them.
hhe hunts for the mere pleasure and excite
Wgnt ~ the sport but she SAYS she 1ouidnt
XII little lnnocent rabbit for anJthlng All
OF the birds she shoots that the family doesn't
need she gives away to the neighboTA
ants. mrs, Aener harpeF OF Cranberry Greek has
this fsll. she owns three dozen steel traDk
put every night and morning she rows her
poat w ths eLeSk. on each SIDE OF whleh her
traps are set ktlls the game N any has been
caught and resets her traps. Last year MIRA
e buy good horse.