The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-10-09
HER VACATION.
A Roswell School Girl Writes of Lii.
on the Ranch.

A Roswell School Girl Writes of Life
on the Ranch.
Katie k" aged fifteen. writing
from Roswell to Mrs. Marjorie Rus
sell. of 1.-THE Earth" published in
Chicago, says:
Roswell, N. M.
"As soon as vacation began this
summer we closed our town house
and vent right out to the ranch. Go
ing out to stay at the ranch is some
thing we all look forward to with a
great deal Of pleasure. We have trav-
eled a great cal with father and
mother, and visited country homes
in the east and north and other parts
of the south but We think none of
them equals ours, and nowhere else
do the women seem to have it half
SO easy. Another thing, our harvest.
ing is all done by people who live In
tents and provide their meals.
So harvest time brings no extra work
to us, though of course we enjoy ov-
erseeing the getting in of our own
special crops, for most us have a few
acres hat our parents allow us to
consider our own, and on this we
raise what we like, or what is bound
to do well.
/ had three acres set out in pears,
the same variety that Mr.. Parker
Earle grows and sends out car loads
of every year. You don't know what
a pear is until you have tasted those.
My sister il interested in raising
chickens. She gets from forty to sixty
cents for her >broilers. and twenty
five cents the year round for the eggs
My little brother has ten ducks and
a flock of nine geese. 1t is such a
sight to see them in the creek.
A sister Of fathers. who ives at
the ranch, has four Jersey cows. and
besides supplying US with all the
milk, cream and butter we can use,
b sells to regular customers and
makes a nice little sum. The price of
butter is never less than twenty-five
cents. Auntie says she is able to lay
aside a great deal more than If she
had remained in her position as stem
ographer in a Chicago ofice. She
says she feels, and we all know she
looks, ten years younger than when
she came to us two years ago. She
was afraid to go near a horse then.
but it would do you good to see how
she sits her saddle today.
For the past two months we have
had relatives from near New Or
leans staying with us. They came out
as Don as the yellow fever epidemic
broke out in the city. They have not
gotten over wondering at what they
call our marvellous country. They
are astounded at the variety and per-
lection OF the things grown; at the
fertility of the soil and the p~ossibili-
ties Of even q few acres of grOunt.
They say they do not want to go
at all, and when they must do
it will only be to stay long enough
to dispose of their property and pack
up their belongings, for they mea
They say people must live longer
where they do not have to dread
or overiows Of the river and
a general round OF uncertainties, and
don't wonder that we all look salts
fed. They are writing no end Of let
to their friends, and quite a num-
Der Of the friends have written back
particulars and prices of land.
says we bid fair to have a
colony here before long.
Our friends are offering a good am
punt for a place owned by a widow
eight miles from US, but she
does not want to sell, for the piac,.
brings her in a very comfortable in
come.
We have such good times out at the
-anch that we do not care to go away
during the summer, but this year
We took a trip north because father
thought we ought to see the Port