The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-10
a PLUCKY DAIRYwosAN.

In the July 4 issue of the Rural New
Yorker is capital story from real life
of Vermont mother of a family who
runs successful dairy. That our
readers may take some courage from
her experience, we present the salient
points Of the article, that they may see
how this noble woman led her domestic
troubles out of the wilderness and
writ her name high on the scroll Of
eminent butter makers
Mrs. Carrie ]. Nelson tells this story
in the Yorker: Thirteen years ago 1
was left a widow with four children.
three boys and one girl, the eldest but
eight years Old. at the time of his
fathers death. I was then living on
this farm, but with the cares of nv
little family, and the large amount of
Indebtedness OF the estate, [ was in
duced to sell the farm to my brother
in-law, who lives in Boston. After all
debts were paid, 1 had 1925 in cash.
including $1,000 paid me in life insur-
ance after the death of my husband
For five years I lived on the farm
and managed it for my brother-in-law W:
but l concluded that if I could run the
farm satisfactorily for him, I could for
myself, so I bought back the old home
farm, which took all my savings and
put me in debt about 5000 besides
In 1894 she put in the upper floor OF
the barn and built a driveway, and in
1894 she put in a silo and made other
improvements, and has now the lum-
Der on the ground for another sdlo. She
has also bought $685. worth of pasture
land. She has also bought a separator
and a new piano, so you see she is go
Ing ahead. Her farm contains ZIG
acres MY bran I buy by the carload
My dairy last year, consisting of 10
cows and heifers in milk. averaged SIS
pounds CT butter per cow. This year
I hope to do better than that The
average the year before was 309 pounds
per cow. Ny butter is all put up in
half pound prints, and wrapped in a
printed wrapper bearing my name and
farm address. The butter is sold by a
well-knoWn Boston commission mer-
chant, who has always paid me the top
price.
My butter took the first prize at the
Vermont dairymen's meeting in 1892, at
the Vermont State Fair and the Worlds
Food Fair In Boston in 1894 and at the
state Fair in 1895. My cows are an
high grade Jerseys, and at various
times in the past three years 1 have
added choice A. J. G. G. heifers and
sires from the best herds in the state.
I employ two men the year round, be-
sides what my children do. Ny
daughter and second son, now Is and 16
years old respectively, make and han
die all the butter
my father. now Sc years old, and a
sister, totally blind, live with me, SO
you see that I have quite a large family
for. which to provide" She keeps book
accounts to know where she stands
and saws she has lost but one account
IN thirteen years. What a marvel of a
collector she must be. Here. then. is a
new woman worth talking about From
her picture in the paper she seems to
wear female clothes, and there is not
bicycle in sight.
The newspaper writer SAYS: "At the
conclusion of her narrative I asked her
If she could recommend other women
situated as she was thirteen years ago
to undertake what she had, and her re-
ply was: II do not feel as though I had
done any more than any woman could
do if she would only try" Here is the
plain story of what a woman can do,
and it should be noble incentive to
those who find themselves with a small
amount of money and a family to sup
port. Good COWS we'll managed, good
butter we'll made and marketed in a
sensible way will overcome any finan-
cial difficulties.