The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-13
WOMEN MAKE MONEY
WAKE LADY'S EXPERIENCE
While Some Take In Sewing, Some a Boarder or Two and Others
Grade Tobacco, Mrs. Shearon Looks After Her
Cow and Chickens

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There are various ways of making.
money for our women folks; SOM
take in sewing, some take a bOarder
or two. some canvass, and in some
n~eighborhoods some grade tobacco
and it for market.
I make my money differently from
any of these as l get it from cows and
chickens. We all raise chickens. and
all we farmer folks ought to keep a
COW. To have milk and butter all the
time it is absolutely necessary to keep
two cows. To care for two is not very
much more trouble than it is to care
for one. The milking is the principal
difference. and l find if / can get to the
lot to milk one / can stay to milk
the second.
Get ) Cents More a Pound for Butter
Of Quality.
Anybody with two good COWS ought
to sell not less than $50 worth OF
butter in a year | have in the past
year old s98 worth of butter. from
my two cows. They We're both dry
their full period and both raised
calves, not on skim milk but on whole
milk. Besides there was a family OF
six-and hired hands-to eat butter.
1t is useless to say the butter was
good. ] had a demand for all / could
make, aud got five cents on the pound
more than ordinary butter sold for.
This is the surplus, mind you, to say
nothing of the milk the pigs got and
they certainly were pleased with 1t
and grunted their approval every tune
they were fed.
These COWS are not scrubs, neither
are they registered. They have regis
tered sires.
To Make Money ron Chickens. Get
Good stock.
While this is one good way for a
woman on the farm to make money.
another way fully as good is the rails
ing Of chickens. To realize the best
rOfits and be in demand the chickens
must be good. It is much more en-
c~ouraging to have good chickens than
sorry ones, to say nothing Of the in
creased profits. Some people say any
old hen will lay and that corn makes
the hog. There is but way for them
to be conVinced: let them get full
| blood chickens or hogs and feed them
right along with their scrubs and they
| will never regret what the superior
stock cost in the beginning. .
One can make as much money off
chickens for the capital invested as
he can off anything else. You can
buy a trio Of good fowls for So and
they will begin to make you something
in a few days Select some breed that
you like, write to the advertisers and
| consult them about their breeds. they
will be glad to answer any inquiries.
/ have found the WhiteWyandottes
to answer my purpose fine. Any one
| hat has any taste for chickens at all
| couldn't help admiring them, to see
them standing in the yard with full
breast, head erect and stately car
rage.
Good Fowls Lay Twice as Many Eggs
as Scrubs.
Not only are they pretty, but for
a general purpose fowl are unexcelled.
There is certainly no money in scrub
chickens. They won't lay Christmas
eggs. While I used to raise scrubs
and had to save eggs sometimes two
months to have enough for Christmas,
| and now I never think of such a thing.
I get enough in two Or-.three days
and don't keep as many hens as l
used to. I find they will lay twice
| as many eggs as scrubs, and scrubs
are continually getting sick and dy-
ing. On the other hand / have never
seen a sick Wyandotte. Those who
feel they can't afford a trio can afford
a cOckerel, and the cross rs quite an
Improvement on the scrub.
The light colored breeds have an ad-
vantage over the dark ones in being
easier to dress The White Wyan-
two pounds at eight weeks old.-Hrs.
2. NJ Shearon. of Wake Co., N. c.. in
Progressive Farmer.
Lady" said Meandering Mike.
you don't want to listen to no hard
luck story, do you?"
Not a bit Of it."
lyon relieve my mind If you want
Ito hear somethin, worth while. you
jes' gimme a-chance TO show what Il
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