The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-01-15
TURKEYS AND STRAWBERRIES
Business Schemes of Two Enterprls.
tina Yankee Girls in the Phii-
fppine Islands.

per pint, and they are canned al
thatl"
This is the statement which caused
Miss Agnes Slocum, of certain town
In Vermont, high in the Green noun
tains, to open her pretty eyes. Then
she 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.
II am going to Manila, mother y
announced Miss Agnes at dinner that
day, "and when ! come back l will
bring fortune with me. Now / am
only plain Agnes Slocum, but when ]
return it will be as Miss Slocum, the
millionaire planterl"
1t takes a good deal to surprise a
Vermont farmer, but Farmer Slocum
and his wife and the rest of the Slo-
cum family were amazed when Misa
Agnes unfolded her 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 q
large stock of strawberry plants.
ut is neither too hot nor too wet for
them there" announced she, ''for /
have studied 1t 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 | shall select
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 I 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 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 and
was waiting for them to grow They
were doing remarkably well for the
fnwr - haH
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. As
soon as possible she would divide her
roots and extend her field Of opera
tions, making strawberry farm OF
some dimensions. The idea Of setting
out the plants and holding lack por-
tions of them to assure a continuous
crop had entered her mind and might
be successfully worked.
Grace Elliott Page is the name of
another girl who is trying her for
tunes in the Philippines. She is also
a New Englander, 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 Pacific coast as well as along
the coast of the Atlantic, and as for
demand. there was no question about
that. An American turkey in the
Philippines, a plump Thanksgiving
turkey, brings its price.
According to her calculations every
turkey will be worth IS to Miss Page,
and the feed win cost almost moth
ing. 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 100 live hens. Her
idea is to divide the labor of Matching
the turkeys between the hens and in
and 50 bring her turkey
farm into the world.
There have always been turkeys in
the Philippines. but such turkeysl
Thin and of poor flavor, ill-plumaged,
and under-sized-none such as grace
the American board on Thanksgiving
day.
Miss Page read Of the turkey situa-
tion abroad in our Pacific colony, and
started for the island of Luzon to
raise turkeys. That she win succeed
there Is little doubt.
The only thing that stands in the