The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-02-23
A MAINE WOMAN FARMER.

Miss Eva Storer of Norridgewock has
proved that woman can be successful
farmer. She is manager of a large farm
about two miles from the village on the
north side of the river.
Her speciality is poultry. She has made
pronounced success in this and carried off
a number of blue ribbons at the State
Fairs IN the last two years. She raises
the White Indian Game breed. She has
formed system in which she realizes
from her hens big profits throughout the
year. She believes that the success in
poultry business is personal attention to
the birds. She has her hens all named
and she can call them from the flock any
time that she chooses. She takes them
IN her hands and pets them and she de-
clares that this attention has a great
deal to do with making them lay.
Miss Storer does not devote her time
entirely to her hens. There are lot of
women who can do this, but there are few
women who are today managing all
branches of farming and doing the labor
that is required of man on the farm.
During the fall months Miss Storer did
the blowing. Her father an elderly
gentleman, is not able to do much work,
and Miss Storer, wishing to make next
year a banner one in acreage of crops,
got her father to drive the horses and
she held the pillow to break up some old
pasture land that had not been plowed
for thirty years, it being covered with
gray birch bushes and low shrubbery.
In the last few years through the entire
management of Miss Storer, she has
been able to pay off the mortgage on the
farm, new house has been built, and
Miss Storer is setting pace in farming
by her close application that is making
the men farmers take notice.
Miss Storer is not large, muscular
woman, but to the contrary is small, and
until she began to work on the farm was
delicate. She is now in good health and
shows tinge in her face that illustrates
that outdoor work is as adapted to women
as men.
Of all the breeds. Miss Storer's favorite
Is the White Indian Game. She does not
think it makes so much difference what
breed one keeps, for the kind that is liked
the best does the best as it is apt to re-
ceive the best care. The Games, how
ever, have proved to be for her the best
breed for eggs and poultry.
Miss Storer has two two-year-old hens
that for the past six days have each laid
an egg every day. The eggs of the
Games are not SO rich a brown as those
of either the Rhode Island Red or the
Plymouth Rock, and are not so large as
those Of most strains of the Reds. The
Games are good sitters and mothers and
will always fight for their young when in
danger. This breed stands the cold
weather better than any other fowl that
Miss Storer keeps. She says the White
Indian Games are not fighters, as many
suppose, but are as peaceable as the
Rock or any other hen She has.
They are excellent table fowl, their
meat being tender and fine grained.
They have round and very wide breast,
thick and meaty. They are very heavy
bird, much heavier than they look, as
they have solid bodies, wide breast, and
short close set feathers. They weigh
nearly as much as the Plymouth Rocks.
Their skin, when dressed, is rich yell
low and they make fine appearance.
For one who likes a bird with a good
plump breast they are very profitable.
Miss Storer has Matched chickens the
fourth of March and killed them the
eighteenth of June and sent them to
Poland Springs that dressed from two
to two and fourth pounds each,
bringing her from fifty to sixty cents
each.-John E. Taylor, in The American
Cultivater.