The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-25
WORK FOR WOMEN THAT WILL
PAY.

Speaking about profitable agricul-
ture and money to be made on farm
Elder j. T. Coats, of Coats, who was
in Raleigh yesterday, said that he had
told his daughters that he intended to
quit raising cotton and go into raising
chickens and turkeys And then he
said something!
In Raleigh on Wednesday of this
week a gentleman made an effort TO
buy six large turkeys and they could
not be had. Turkeys sold readily here
at from sixteen to eighteen cents un-
| dressed, and there was scarcity OF
large turkeys. The price of chickens
has gone up so that eating chicken is
now regarded as a luxury to be enjoy
ed only on a holiday or on Sunday. AS
| for eggs, they are so high that old
fashioned cakes and custard, requiring
many eggs. are seldom seen on the
tables of people of average means.
| There is particularly an unlimited
market for all the eggs, chickens, and
will send to market. This is bust
ness for which women are specially
fitted and in which they can make
/ good money. In the old times, the Wo-
men in family had the egg and
chicken receipts for pin money. IL
they will prepare for raising poultry
and devote their attention to 1T, they
will find that the pin money Will
bring more cash than the cotton mon
cy. Women are beginning to under
stand this. for in the "Woman's Edi-
ton" of The News and Observer yes
terday the practical, as we'll as bril-
liant. editorial writer, discussing the
various avocations open to women,
said: ''Why not farm? Not cotton, or
corn, or tobacco, but chickens, tur-
keys, ducks squads, eggs, vegetables,
fruits, etc.
| 1t does not require broad acres to
carry on a successful poultry farm. Il
takes work care, attention and bust
| ness Judgment to make it pay, but in
that avocation a woman is perfectly
! independent, is not in the public eye
and the reward of we'll directed in=
custry will be larger than in most
other employment open to women.
1t requires some capital, but not large
capital. With the wives and daugh-
ters of farmers, the only capital re-
quired is what is necessary to fix suit
able houses and ranges, and TO buy
good stock for raising. In proportion
to the money invested. the returns will
be larger than in any other business
enterprise open to the great body of
| women.
One of the wisest men North Caro-
lima has produced, a student of eco
homie questions, in discussing the rea-
son that New England has more
money in the savings banks. than the
people Of the South, attributed
! families of moderate means every
member In the family is a bread win
Fer, whereas in the South only the
| head of the family gets a salary or
makes money. There is less of that
| than formerly when the above state
| inent was made, but it is still too true.
There is no reason why every grown
person., ITCH OF poor, IIldl6 VI Itiileilc,
should lack for employment. Work is
honorable in women as we'll as in men,
and where the head of a family has
small income it is necessary for all
to learn how 10 earn money. Ability
TO support herself makes for the in
dependence of every woman and she is
more useful member of society than
If she feels that it is not her place to
become a bread winner. Fortunately
the day when the women of a family
stinted themselves and pinched them
selves because there was no work for
them to do, or because they thought it
out of place for them to work as their
brothers, is rapidly passing away The
best type of Southern womanhood is
found at work-in the professions, in
business, in every line in which there
| is an opening. They are doing good
work too, and they have lost in
bread winning none of those woman
ly qualities and graces that Iistin-
guished the Southern women Of the
past.
There is no work that woman can
do that will pay her better, unless she
be a specialist or a genius or have
some particular gift at given calling.
than turning her attention to truck
sarening, rose growing, raising flow
ers for market, conducting a poultry
yard and the like. These practical
lines of work are particularly inviting
| to the wives, sisters and daughters OF
| Farmers who have the necessary land
and understand something of agricul-
| ture and raising poultry. Rut it can
be made profitable By women in the
towns if they will master the Gcces-
sary information.
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