The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-18
THREE GIRL FARMERS.
These Eenersetic Cleveland Maids
Hire "Hands" and Plan Crops.

Wndt would you 40 II you nau
your choice supposing thai you are
girl, go to balls and teas and
wear sparingly, frilly gowns made
your calls in an electric runabout,
and have a box at the opera, or
run n farm, cut thirty acres of hay
and sell it at the best market. break
your own horses, take your pigs to
the county seat to sell them. hire
men that work for you. fire them
if necessary, and drive big our
ing car at breakneck speed or ride
broncho over the farm to super
intend it?
That may seem rather a startling
question to be asked, And it may be
that the second alternative seems a
trifle too impossible - consider
You may think that neithe' YOU, nor
any other girl, could do II even if
it were chosen But that's where you
are wrong. 1t has been chosen and
the girls that chose 1t have made
good at it, to such extent that one
almost forgets that it is a hard
thing to do.
The girls who have chosen this
rather strenuous and unusual, but
to them joy-producing, career of
practical farmers, are Nellie, Mary
and Mildred MacGregor, whose
father, A. II. MacGregor, died six
years ago and left them farm of
one hundred good, rich acres, two
miles west of Geneva, o. The girls
were from 13 to IS years of age at
that time.
Mrs. MacGregor quietly took up
the business of managing the farm,
and did 1t in such a way that she
made the girls love it as she her
self did.
Before long they We're relieving
her Of the care and work and in
short time each had taken upon
herself certain part of the respon-
sibility and OF the real work as
well. Thus these girls emerged into
practical and intelligent farmers.
Nellie, the eldest, reserved for
herself the helping of her mother
to make a real and delightful home
She is interested in the outdoor
part of the farm, but the house Is
her especial domain, and when she
was seen last week in the big. airy,
11-room house, wearing a dainty
lavender ribbon tied around her
fluffy hair to the high heeled shoes
on her feet, the epitOme OF a home
maker, the kind of a home-maker
that makes you think of real jolly,
care-free home.
Mary, considered by her sisters as
the prettiest one of the family, who,
by the way, are all pretty whatever
they themselves may think. has the
fruit and animals as her part of the
farm management.
The real worker of the trio. how
ever, is Mildred. who 'just loves it
ALL" but gives her undivided atten.
ton to the crops and the men that
SOW. mow and harvest them. She
is the one who takes the burden
of the possible thunder storm be-
cause the hay isn't all in yet. She
is the one who cuts the grain with
her hands if the men are not doing
it with the rapidity she thinks nee
essary for the best interests of the
farm" as it is known from Buffalo
TO Chicago. And Mildred is not as
yet 20 years old.
The girls have never had any
trouble with the management of the
men they have hired. The men un-
derstand that they are not girls
playing at farming, that 1t is just
as much of a business to them as
though they were men who depended
upon this for their livelihood. They
know just what they want done and
how they want it done. and after a
while the men learn that the way
these girls want a thing done is
usually the way II ought to be
done.-Cleveland Leader