The Glenwood post., 1912-05-11
WOMEN MAKING SUCCESS AT -
VARIOUS KINDS OF FARMING
They Have Found Health and
Happiness as Well by TiIlin9 the
Son-Axricu1turaI Colleges Have Special
Them.
(By B. e. LARA, Illinois.)

(By B. e. LARA. Illinois)
Whenever We see in the newspapers
and magazines, as We often do, COM
ments on the disrupting of the home
and fears expressed regarding the
lessening of home influence because OF
women entering the various fields OF
labor we recall the following words
of the late Susan b. Anthony. Miss
Anthony was woman's friend and
gested any course of action, which
would in any way tend to other than
the uplifting of women.
She said: Nothing can destroy the
home life. The more women become
the equals of men and the more they
are considered as equals the stronger
will the home life become. Women
used to be considered as dependents,
but now, with their increasing educa-
ton, ability and opportunities, they
are better able to make the home life
what 1t should be. The increasing
activity of women in all branches Of
industry is simply the result OF our
improved civilization.
Many women bread winners have
chosen strange careers for themselves
in various parts of the world. Their
example may inspire others, II not to
adopt like professions, to act upon the
principle which guided them to choose
the one thing they could do which
was near at hand.
In the south there is a woman who
not only personally delivers mail over
a 40-mile route, riding over scantily
settled region thrice weekly during
the entire year, but manages large
farm as well, doing much of the man
ual labor herself, and supports, by her
energy and courage family or six.
Out in California is a dafrodil farm
conducted by a woman. Sorting and
shipping to eastern markets, as we'll
as the filling OF daily orders for the
local markets in time of bloom, make
her life strenuous one, for here, as
In everything else. success depends
upon continuous care and labor.
In the Sacramento valley, the wife
of an eastern physician raises olives.
That she also sells them is attested
by the fact that a great factory on
her ranch prepares for the eastern
markets large quantities OF luscious
ripe olives.
Another woman in California has
made fortune growing nuts. While
waiting for the nut trees to reach
their maturity this energetic woman
raised pampas grass between the tree
rows, and cleared as high as $1,000 q
year from this alone.
The stuffed prune" industry
brought a competence to another
woman, who, thrown upon her own
resources, availed herself OF the ad.
vantages she saw close at hand. Chi.
cago and New York markets now de-
mand all the output from this WON.
ans ranch. Her great success is due
to her dainty and artistic manner OF
packing the export.
In the constantly broadening field
for women workers, no occupation
seems better suited to the artistic,
beauty-loving temperament Of women
than the raising OF flowers. Many
women are today very successful
florists, prominent among them being
a Minneapolis woman, who has by
rare executive ability and strictly
honest dealing, increased her plant
from year to year, until now she is
one of the most successful florists in
America. Her flower seeds are we'll
known. Flower-loving women every.
where are proud of this Pioneer
Seedswoman."
There are three well-known women
landscape architects in New York who
have taken practical courses in gar.
dening and are practicing their pro
fession within a radius OF 100 miles
Of that city. Miss Grace Tabor OF
Boston laid out many OF Newports
beautiful estates.
One of the largest western railroads
employs the services OF an exper,
woman landscape gardener by the
year to lay out the plots about the
stations and at the big railroad termi.
nails.
There is a private school OF horti.
culture for women in Pennsylvania
which offers courses of instruction in