The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-11-10
TURKEYS AND STRAWBERRIES.

Strawberries are selling at S2.50 per
 pint, and they are canned at that' ! This is the statement which caused
 Miss Agnes Slocum of a certain town in
 Vermont, high in the Green Mountains, to open her pretty eyes. Then she
 closed them, and during the minute they remained shut she pictured such visions of life in the Philippines as
 caused her family to utter exclamations of surprise.
 II am going to Manila, mother" an nounces Miss Agnes at dinner that day,
 "and when I come back I will bring fortune with me. Now I am only plain Agnes Slocum, but when l return it will be as Miss Slocum, the millionaire
 planter"
 It takes a good deal to surprise a Vermont farmer, but Farmer Socum
 and his wife and the rest of the Slocum family were amazed when Miss Agnes
 unfolded her plans.
 She intended to go to the Philippine
 Islands with a trunk and packing box;
 the former to contain her wardrobe, the
 latter to transport a large stock of strawberry plants 'It is neither too hot nor too wet for them there, an
 nounced she flor 1 have studied it up, and next season I shall have all the strawberries they can eat in Manila and Luzon, and maybe enough to send to Sultan and Sulu. I do not know where I shall locate but most likely I shall select nice rolling piece of land back of Bacolod and there where the soil is we'll drained, 1 shall blow and make my rows, then the little plants will be carefully set in, one by one, and another season they will be loaded with berries. What shall l charge per quart? That dependsl As much as I can get for them.'
 Well, after some consultation, Miss Slocum started out with five hundred dollars which she thought would be more than sufficient for her needs for year. and the good wishes of her friends
 That was early in the present year The first letter received from Miss Slo- cum, planter, reported that she had se- cured two acres of excellent land, not far from Bacolod, and that she had set out her tiny points and was waiting for them to grow. They were doing re- markedly well for the first season, as few of them had died.
 Miss Slocum added that the demand for fresh American berries was much greater than she had supposed, and that all her crop for the first season had already been engaged. As soon as possible she would divide her roots and extend her field of operations, making strawberry farm of some dimensions. The idea of setting out the plants and holding back portions of them to assure continuous crop had entered her mind and might be successfully worked
 Grace Elliott Page is the name of another girl who is trying her fortunes in the Philippines. She is also New Fnglander, Maine girl, and her dream was to raise turkeys in the Philippine Islands.
 As the weather is very favorable part of the year, and as turkeys only need to have shelter provided for them during the rainy season, she saw no reason why they should not thrive on the Pa cific coast as we'll as along the coast of the Atlantic, and as for demand, there was no question about that. An Amer ican turkey in the Philippines, a plump turkey, brings it's price
 According to her calculations every turkey will be worth five dollars to Miss Page and the feed will cost almost nothing, as nuts grow wild and native foods are very cheap.
 Miss Page took the steamer for the Philippine Islands In March She took with her a cargo of turkey eggs, two incubators and one hundred live hens. Her idea is to divide the labor of hatch ! ing the turkeys between the hens and and so bring her turkey farm into the world.
 There have always been turkeys in the Philippines, but such turkeys. 1 Thin and of poor flavor. ill-plumaged. | and under-si1ed--ron such as grace the 1 American board on Thanksgiving Day. i
 Miss Page read of the turkey situa- | ton abroad, in our Pacific colony, stu | died up the turkey industry, and start 1 ed for the Island of Luzon to raise tur- | keys That she will succeed there is | little doubt.
 The only thing that stands in the way | 0f the permanent success of these two | women farmers is the fact that they are young and pretty, and that there are many marriageable men in the is ande Maybe they will remain girl 'achelors, but the chances are that they will marry before the first season is over.-From The Seattle Washington Post-Intelligencer.