The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-25
SOME ACHIEVEMENTS
 OF WOMEN FARMERS

which now includes 1.60o acres. She nlaoed around 1t several miles of wire fencing. The land runs along the Ten nessee River near Decatur. The capa- ble, energetic woman is her own over seer, and knows and attends to every detail of business on the place, from putting up a panel of wire fence to Shipping h sr-cotton product. She has a talent for managing negroes so as to get work out of them and at the same time keep them good natured. She is yearly growing richer.
 Then there is another of the live girls of today. Mabel Babcock. propri- etor and originator of the famous North Shore poultry farm, near Chicago It contains a hundred acres. A fine herd of Jerseys is part of the farms equip ment, dairying and poultry rearing suppIementing each other admirably.
 A dozen years ago Mabel Babcock was a clerk in a wholesale house in Chicago. She lived at Kenilworth and was lucky enough to inhabit with her family whole house with yard to it. She was naturally fond of the hen bus mess and began by keeping for recrea- tion, as we'll as for fresh egg supply, some chickens in the backyard of her home The business grew on her hands Her poultry always received the best care and rewarded her duly. Everything was kept clean and in per- feet sanitary order. The same excel lent conditions prevail in the eight large buildings in which Miss Babcock now rears and prepares for market chickens, ducks. geese, turkeys and supplies regularly some of the leading hotels and clubs of Chicago.
 As successful as any man farmer In Pennsylvania is Miss Ella W. Fred ericks, who operates a ffty-three acre farm and milk dairy near Valley Forge. Miss Fredericks is 24 years old, and since she was 19 she has had charge of the farm. She not only has charge of 1t, but does much of the ac- tual work on 1t. She can pitch hay as fast as any man can. She drives a milk delivery wagon part of the time, rising at 2:30 in the morning, feeding and harnessing her horses and going off before daylight with her milk cans. Be- sides such little recreations as this. Miss Fredericks raises annually 200 chickens and a dozen pigs, and takes an occasional hand in blowing. And she likes 1t all so well that nothing would induce her to give up farm life.
 Everywhere are these strong. self re- liant, successful women farmers. One of the larges ranches even in Texas is ow led and managed by a woman, Mrs. Harriet M. King. It is the Santa Ger trudes ranch, and it is almost twice as large as the whole State of Rhode Is- land. yet Mrs. King has it all inclosed with wire fence. The ranch and it's pecuniary interests are SO great that Mrs. King has divided 1t into twelve districts, each superintended by a local foreman. The mistress of this vast estate is woman of remarkable ex- ecutive and business ability.
 Lucille Muihall. the famous rough rider and steer roper, has a ranch at okla. She has abolished the barbarous custom of branding her cat tie. li instead >has a tin tag attached 10 their ears. Another famous farmer gfr. is Georgia Burns. owner and man. ager of the Arrow Heart cattle ranch, also in Oklahoma. Her estate contains l1,o00 acres, besides which she controls 100000 acres of oil and mineral lands In Indian Territory. Miss Burns began 1er business enterprises by pre-emptlng ! claim of a hundred acres in Oklahoma when she was IS years old.
 Lucy M. Irwin.