Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-05-28
WOMAN MARKET GARDENERS.


Concerning the outdoor occupations
for women which have lately attained
wholesome popularity and are going
70 rescue women from their nerves,
Miss Mary E. Cutler, who is herself
one OF the most successful market
gardeners in Massachusetts,, speaks
most encouragingly.
Raising flowers in greenhouses for
market is profession for which
women are proving themselves es-
pecially adapted" she says. 1T is a
business that has to be learned, like
any other, but with a little experience,
added to natural qualification, such as
perseverance, energy and common
sense, one is sure to succeed. The
plant ! own and am running at the
present time was started on $3.50, and
| have built up a large, we'll paying
business. Given an acre of land, the
requisite, of course, is a greenhouse.
A modest one can be built for 500,
and rough heating apparatus can be
put in for $50. The cost of plant
and seeds is slight, and other ex-
penses, sucn as tools, fertilizers, cold
frames for starting the plant, etc,
would amount TO little on so small
scale. The secret of success is to
utilize every inch of space. In
vegetable house the tables can be
filled with lettuce. cucumbers or toma-
toes, while rnubarb and mushrooms
can be grown on the ground under
meath. A good head for planning is a
necessity, and no time must be
wasted between crops.
"'The demand and supply for car
nation pinks were never SO great as
at the present time. Women all over
the country are raising these with
great success. / am engaged in grow
ing pinks, and grow them for profit
as well as pleasure. Miss Taylor,
florist of Milford, Mass, has two car
nation houses, one 19x37 feet. another
S7x26 feet. She gives all her time
to the work, propagating and growing
her own stock and caring for the
houses. She has found a market for
everything in her own town, which is
commission. She has perfect health,
enjoys her work, ana supports her
father and mother. In these progress
sive times the handle of the agri-
cultural tool is coming to know the
grasp of the woman's hand almost as
we'll as the needle or the broom, and
many women are making regulations
as farmers of progress.
among the agriculturalists are
wives, widows and maijens; women
who have begun with small means,
women of wealth who have entered
the ranks for the pleasure they could
get out of it or for philanthropic pur-
poses. They are cultivating thou
sands of acres, using the steam engine
as a ploughman. The majority con
duct farms of more than hundred
acres, while a few are contented with
a single acre, depending on the spade
and hoe.
Poultry culture and the cultivation
of tomatoes and other remuneratiye
lines are being pursued by
women: and even college training is
found of service, for education and
brains are needed in the business.
The young women in Compton, R. l.,
are examples Of college graduates
going directly into outdoor work.
These women saw a chance to make
money by supplying Newport's cpl
cures with dair1;es. Their So
lamb, young Il sse. nd h7tncuse
grapes bring fancy prices, and there
isn't an .closy that they studied but
contributes in some way TO Their
success.
"But if woman decides to take up
flower and vegetable culture as pro-
fession, she ought, if it be possible,
to fit herself for it by previous
course of study in some agricultural
college; she should be familiar with
botany and chemistry. If she has
chance to travel and study the fora
of other countries, she has the greater
chance of making a name for herself.
Miss Myra Dock of Philadelphia, is an
illustration. She was sent by the
park commissioner to study the park
system of Europe. Trees should be
studied as well as landscape garden
ing. Perhaps some day women may
become park commissioners, and
parks today show the need OF some'
new element in that department OF
civil life"