The Detroit times., 1911-03-03
low city Girl With Farm Fever HOmesteaded
And Made Fortune Out of Soil In Seven Years

-< oxr-t. march --Beginning life
1880 country, having but n
n ~~~11cI 40 start with, aud accum-
80 rronerfy valued az approx
.~S~ @1o00OO. Is considered a Diff
a 80 ~ the most experienced o.
$500 men, but Miss Ruth NJ. Hill
~ Paul girl, has accomplished
Hat and Is today the owner and
@&11er OF one OF the largest and
W paying farms IN Western Canada
when fbegan my work across the
International boundary line" said
Miss Hfllman, II had but a very slight
knowledge of farming, but I went at
Y with all the energy and determine
Hon that l possessed and have been
more than repaid for the work"
Miss Hillman Is strong exponent
-of the outdoor fffe and the back to
the soil' movement. She believes
that there r. more freedom, more In
.d4pendence and more wealth TO be
ntdtifod m uis manner than In any
othef1 that Is, for the average person.
, She tells an Interesting story OF how
+ she came to go into the northwest
country. and of how she first secured
' tract OF land, adding more and more
20 the farm domain, purchasing an
additional tract each year from the
proceeds Of the crops raised upon the
=. land already owned.
It was seven years ago that Miss
Hillman nrst received an attack OF the
farm fever" At that time with a
party of friends, she was en- route
from st. Paul to the Pacific. coast.
While the train was passing through
the great wheat belt OF western Can
ada she became interested in the
4 stories told Of money made from the
farm.
0ho -got interested at once and
wrote TO her mother, back In st. Paul,
saying that she was determined to be
= farmer.
The plansL OF the daughter were not
focetved With enthusiasm by the
Dother. but after two years or argu-
hont Ruth and her mother went to
Cnnads and took homestead.
II buln little house right away"
hafd she, @and arranged to have plow-
~ dons. This house was much the
unme as those built blythe other new
0Gktlers, being what Is commonly
known % o "claim shack" but II
norved the purpose until We were
Ab1e to build q better one.
when We went there to live We
took with IN few horses and other
stock from q small farm which we
0Wned I'm Wisconsin, as well az con-
nldorable machinery, and began opera
fio0s Much Of the machinery we soon
found to be Of no value to us I'm that
bountry, but I was inexperienced
then"
# Miss Hfllman now has the homo
farm OF 1890 acres with a half sec
fion several miles away. The main
place il well stocked with blooded
Rercheron horses, In which their own
Or takes special pride. and In paying
dividends AZ high al $1,000 q year.
as Mas Hillman Is the bose" and
jooka AFTER. the sowing and reaping OF
the crops 90 well as the care OF the
stock. She makes all purchases OF
machinery and supplies. She ships
her own grain to the Winnipeg mar
ket and goes there to close the deal.
Upon several occasions she has ship
bed stock across the line into the
3 mates. Recently on trip to st. Paul
Nhe bought several carloads Of blood
I'd horses.
2< Thirty bushels Of wheat to the acre
- considered by Miss Hillman rs
s merely an ordinary. crop; she de-
.nands that her land produce 40 bush
e1s. Questioned az to whether the