The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-03-11
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WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE.
A Market Gardener Predicts a Successful
Future For Them.

wholesome popularity ana are going
to rescue women from their nerves.
Miss Mary Il. Cutler, who Is herself
enc of the most successful market gar
deners in Massachusetts,, speaks most
encouragingly.
Raising flowers in greenhouses for
market Is profession for which wom-
en- are proving themselves especially
adapted" she says in the Boston Tran
script. at is business that has to be
learned like any other. but with little
experience, added to natural qualitica-
tion, such rs perseverance, energy and
common sense, one Is sure to succeed
The plant l own and am running at
the present time was started on $3.50,
and have built up n large, well pay
ing business. Given an acre of land,
the first requisite. OF course, is a green
house. A modest one can be built for
S1OO, and q rough heating apparatus
can be put In for $50. The cost of plant
and seeds Is slight. and other expenses,
such as tools, fertilizers, cold frames
for starting the plants. etc. would
amount to little on so small n scale.
inch of space. In a vegetable house
the tables can be filed with lettuce,
cucumbers or tomatoes, while rhubarb
and mushrooms can be grown on the
ground underneath. A good head for
planning is a necessity, and no time
must be wasted between crops.
1.-THE demand and supply for carna-
tion pinks were never so great as at the
present time. Women all over the
country are raising these with great
success. I am engaged In growing
pinbs, and grow them for profit as well
as pleasure. Miss Taylor. a florist, has
two carnation houses, one nineteen by
thirty-seven feet, another eighty-seven
by twenty-six feet. She gives all her
time to the work, propagating and
growing her own stock and caring for
the houses. She has found market for
\everything in her own town, which is
much more profitable than selling on
commission. She has perfect health,
enjoys her work, and supports her
father and mother. In these progress
sive times the handle of the agrlcul-
tural tool is coming to know the grasp
of the woman's hand almost as well as
the needle or the broom, and many
women are making regulations as
farmers of progress.
Among the agriculturists are wives.
widows and maidens; women who
have entered the ranks for the pleasure
they could get out of II or for philan-
thropic purposes. They are cultivating
thousands of acres, using the steam
engine as a plowman. The majority
conduct farms Of more than 100 acres,
while few are contented with single
acre, depending on the spade and hoe.
Poultry culture and the cultivation
of tomatoes are other remunerative
lines which are being pursued by wom-
en-, and even college training is found
of service, for education ana brains are
needed in the business. Two young
women in Compton, II. l., are examples
of college graduates going directly
into outdoor work. These women saw
a chance to make money by supplying
Newport's epicures with dainties. Their
spring lamb, young geese and hot-house
grapes bring fancy prices, and there
isn't an 'ology' that they studied but
contributes in some way to their sue
cess.
"But If a woman decides to take up
flower and vegetable culture as pro-
fession she ought, If 1t be possible, to
at 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 Illus
tration. She was sent by the Park
Commissioners to study the park sys-
tenn in Europe Trees should be stud
led as we'll as landscape gardening.
Perhaps some day women may be Park
Commissioners, and parks to-day show
the need of some new element in that
department Of civic life."
Spring Belts.
These very necessary dress accessor-
les that form such an attractive addi-
tion to milady's costume are to be more
elegant this spring than for many sea-
sons past.
The latest fashion advices from Paris
state that these new and elaborate belt
modes are more in evidence than ever,
so femininity on this side of the water
follows suit.
Tho dip front shape will still be a
feature of the new belts. but SO much
modified as scarcely to deserve the
name. 1t will entirely lack the exag-
geration Of its first year and just slope
enough to be graceful.
Extremely narrow belts. scarcely an
inch wide, are to be very popular.
Tha noafilton hack effect so much