Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-02-01
TURKEYS AND STRAWBERRIES
Business Schemes OF Two Enterpris'
lag Yankee Girls I'm the Phil
ippine Islands.

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, high in the Green noun.
tains, to open her pretty eyes. Then
nhe closed them, and during the min.
ute they remained shut she pictured
such visions of life in the Philippines
as caused her family to utter excla-
nations of surprise, says the Seattle
Post-Intelligence.
~ am going to Manila, mother"
announced Miss Agnes at dinner that
day, "and when l come back l will
bring q fortune with me. Now am
only plain Agnes Slocum, but when !
return it will be as Miss Slocum, the
millionaire planter!"
1t takes good deal to surprise
Vermont farmer, but Farmer Slocum
and his wife and the rest of the Slo.
cum family were amazed when Misa
agnes un10ldeu ner plans'
She intended to go to the Philip.
pine islands with trunk and pack
ing box; the former to contain her
wardrobe, the latter to transport a
large stock Of strawberry plants.
at is neither too hot nor too wet for
them there" announced she, "for l
have studied it up, and next season
| shall have all the strawberries they
can eat in Manila and Luzon, and
maybe enough to send to the sultan
of Sulu. do not know where / shall
locate, but most likely I shall select
a nice rolling piece of land back OF
Bacolod, and there where the soil Is
well drained / shall plow and make
out my rows, then the little plants
will be carefully set in, one by one,
and another season they will be load
ed with berries. What shall / charge
per quart? That depends! AS much
as l can get for them"
Well. after some consultation, Miss
Slocum started out with $500, which
she thought would be more than suffi'
cient for 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
Slocum, planter, reported that she
had secured two acres of excellent
land, not far from Bacolod, and that
she had set out her tiny plants nnd
was waiting for them to grow. They
were doing remarkably well for The
first season, as few of them had died
Miss Slocum added that the de-
mand for fresh American berries was
much greater than she had supposed
and that all her crop for the first sea
SON had already been engaged. Al
soon as possible she would divide hel
roots and extend her field of opera
tions, making strawberry farm o.
some dimensions The idea of setting
out the plants and holding back por
tions of them to assure continuoui
crop had entered her mind and nigh
be successfully worked.
Grace Elliott Page is the name o
another girl who is trying her for
tunes in the Philippines. She is als'
New Englander, Maine girl, ant
her dream was to raise turkeys in th'
Philippine islands.
AS the weather is very favorable
part of the year, and as turkeys onl,
need to have shelter provided for then
during the rainy season, she saw nj
reason why they should not thriv
on the Pacific coast as well as alon,
the coast of the Atlantic, and as TO
demand, there was no question abou
that. An American turkey in tn
Philippines, plump Thanksgiving
turkey, brings its price.
According to her calculations ever,
turkey will be worth IS to Miss Page
and the feed will cost almost moth
ing, as nuts grow wild and nativ
foods are very cheap.
Miss Page took the steamer for tn
, Philippine islands in March. Sh
took with her cargo of turkey eggs
two incubators and 100 live hens. He
idea is to divide the labor of hatchin
the turkeys between the hens and in
cubators, and SO bring her turke
farm into the world.
There have always been turkeys
the Philippines, but such turkeys
Thin and of poor flavor, ill-plumaget
and under-sized-none such as grac
the American board on Thanksgivin
day.
Miss Page read of the turkey situa
tion abroad in our Pacific colony, an
started for the island of Luzon t
raise turkeys. That she will succee
there Is little doubt.
The only thing that stands in tn
way Of the permanent success of thes
two women farmers is the fact tina
they are young and pretty, and tha
there are many marriageable men
the islands. Maybe they will renal
girl bachelors, but the chances ar
I. that they will marry before the fri
season is over.
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