The Washington herald., 1912-12-08
WOMAN FARMER HAS ELIMINATED THE MDDLEMAN

cost s., while those in season and not
subject to selection. sell for $1.JO.
| A farmer near Chicago is selling a small
| hamper for 81. His assortment is smaller
| and the package not SO attractive as the
| original Long Island home hamper. but
| he sells all he can raise in his garden
| And SO the instances are innumerable.
! each grower using the method for secur-
ing customers best suited to his locality.
! Really, a pleased customer is the best
advertiser. Ours were secured in that
way. for we originally shipped three
hampers to friends in the city. telling
them If they felt they were worth s1.5O
kindly TO send 1t to us; II not, TO accept
the hamper with our compliments. Each
! hamper brought the desired sum and
three and one-third customers. From
that the business has grown so that now
we cannot possibly supply the demand
| If were starting the business myself
in a place where I was little known I
would send complimentary hamper. to-
gether with a note. to every officer OF
every woman's club in town. In the
hamper I would place a haIf-dozen cir
culars about my new business, and my
letter would request the club officers TO
spread the good news Of they consid-
cred II good news) among their friends
feel sure I would need no more ad-
| Yertising.
! The home hamper business offers q
! splendid outdoor occupation for women
for It requires skill in packing to make
! the package as beautiful as possible-a
good intuition. a lover of nature, and a
small plot Of ground worked inten-
sively.
( 1t requires also. my friends. a suit
! able costume and l assure you a skirt
has no place in an intensive market
garden. To begin with. a skirt takes
up about three times as much space as
: a woman. barring, of course, the skirt
, some women are now affecting; but,
for charity's sake, we will draw a veil
across the picture of n woman in a
modern garb attempting to pick peas
or weed onions.
/ Boomers and long leather leggins
are the costume. and 1t would be no
time until people got used to IT. Mercy
en- US! isn't the hobble skirt and the
peekaboO waist sight more immodest?
Then for the best possible partner
{ ship, take an agricultural woman
/ scientifically educated and practically
/ educatedD for the outdoor end and a
domestic economy woman Cagaln sci
| entifically or practically educated) for
the indoor end. The indoor woman
keeps the wheels of domesticity
smoothly oiled and running we'll. and
Jars the surplus produce from the
! garden.
This We might call the by-product
OF thet factory. for in every garden
! of fruit and vegetables, as in every
garden of human beings, there are
misshapen and unsightly specimens
that at heart are perfectly good. For
instance, small ears of corn. called
i ''nubbins." uneven tomatoes green
tipped strawberries. Trimmings from
sussq 10 seed 10 snIdLns 2 'sssII amy
can all be put up in glass for Win
ter food. AS food all these are equal
to the largest ear Of corn. the smooth
est, tomato. &c, that ever grew.
Let me tell you what the canned Il
prefer "jarred'D surplus on our eigh-
! teen acre Tarm was last year: $500
vessels of delicious food
So. my friends. here is a business
any woman might be proud to enter.
Remember three things, work but a
| small area intensively. locate near q
large city, and dress suitably.
!! Copyright. 1912. by sturgis ( Walton Co.