Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-29
TWO GIRLS WITH GRIT.
Strawberries and Turkeys Are
scarce in the Philip
pine is ands

pine Isl ands.
Strawberries are selling at $3.50 per
pint and they are canned at that"
This is the statement which caused
Miss Agnes Slocum, of a certain town in
Vermont, located high III 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 EXPLANATIONS
OF untold surprise.
Il am going TO Manila, mother an
nounced Miss Agnes at dinner that day,
and when | come back | viii bring "A
| fortune with me. Now / am only plain
Agnes Slocum; but when | return il will
be as Miss SlOcum, the millionaire
planter"
1t takes a good deal to surprise Yer,
mont farmer, but Farmer SiOcum and his
wife and the rest of the Slocum family
were amazed when Miss Agnes unfolded
her plans.
She intended to 20 to the Philippine
islands with a trunk and packing box !;
| the former to contain her wardrobe the
latter 10 transport Il large stock of straw
berry plants. 1t is neither too hot nor
too wet for them there" announced She
FOR have studied il up and next sea-
son | shall have all the Strawberries
they can eat in Manila and Luzon and
Sulu. | do not know where | shall To-
cate, but most likely | shall select Il nicr
rolling piece of land back of BacoIod and
| here, where the soil is we'll drained, |
shall plow and make out my rows. then
the little plants will be carefully set in
one by one, and another season they viii
be loaded with berries. What shall
charge per quart? That depends. As
much as / can get for them
IL wen, after some consultation. Miss
Slocum started out with $500 which she
thought would he more than sufficient
LOT her needs for a year, and the good
wishes of her friends.
That was early in the present year
The first letter received from Miss Slu-
cum. planter, reported that she had Sc
| cured two acres of excellent land. not
far from Bacclod, and that she had set
out her tiny points and was waiting for
them to grow. They We're doing remark
ably well for the first season. as few of
them had died.
| Miss Slocum added that the demand
for fresh American berries WAS mucn
greater than she had supposed. and that
ali her crop for the first season had al
ready been engaged. AS soon as possible
she would divide her roots aud extend
| her held OF operations, making n straw
! berry farm Of some dimensions The
idea Of setting cut the plants and holding
pack portions of them to assure II con-
might he successfully worked
Grace Elliott Page is the name of an
other young girl who is TRYING her for
tunes IN the Philippines. She is also Il
New EnglandGr Maine girl. and her
cream was to raise turkeys in The Phil
| ippinc islands.
As the weather is very Favorable, part
Of the wear, and as turkeys only need 10
have shelter provided for them during
me rainy season, she saw no reason why
they should not thrive on the Pacific
coast rs we'll us along the coast of thr
Atlantic, and for demand, there was no
question about that. An American tur-
key IN the Philippines. n plump yellow
legged lhan ksgiying turkey, brings its
price every time.
According 10 her calculations every
| turkey will be worth 50 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
philippines in March. She took with her
cargo Of turkey eggs, two incnhators
and lQll live hens. Her idea is to divide
the labor Of Matching the turkeys be-
tween the hens and incubarors and 50
| bring her turkey farm into the world.
| After all, that will he plain sailing, as
the turkeys will grow up, lay their own
| eggs, and do their own Matching and so
go on, forever peIpetuating the turkey
| family.
There have always been turkeys in the
Philippines, but such turkeys, Thin and
OF poor flavor, ill-plumaged and under
Slzod-none such as grace the American
board on Thanksgiving day.
Miss Page read of the turkey situa-
tion abroad. in our Pacific colony; stud
led up the turkey industry, and started
for the island Of Manila to raise turkeys
| That she will succeed there is little.
doubt.
The only thing that stands in the way
of the permanent success of thes, two
women farmers is the fact that they are
young and pretty. and that there are
many manageable men in the islands
but the chances are that they will marry
before the first year is over Seattle
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