The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14
EARNS $40 A WEEK
Butter and Eggs the Speciality
of Mrs. Henry Schrumpf.
Husband Operates 7OO-Acre
Farm-Wife Runs Dairy.

| Cottonwood Falls, Kan, July IA
Forty dollars a week for the butter and
eggs which she markets each Friday IS
the average income of Mrs. Henry
| Schrumpf, the wife of a young Chase
county farmer near here. At the sea-
son of the year when her sales are the
largest, in the spring months, it is not
unusual for her to market as high as
so pounds of butter and three or four
cases of eggs at a time. From TINS
her sales will go much lower, but rare
ly average below $40 ar $25 a week
So much care and attention has Mrs
Schrumpf devoted to butter making
that she has brought it down to fine
art. She has made the quality of her
product the strong point rather than
quantity.
Finding that the eggs she was able
to market from a small flock of hens,
with butter and cream from several
cows, were sufficient to buy practically
all their groceries and household needs,
Mrs. Schrumpf several years ago de-
cided to increase her business. II sew
eral cows and a couple of hundred hens
would bring such good returns, she fig
ured that a dozen cows and five or SIX
hundred hens would certainly swell the
dividends to something worth while
She felt that she was able to manage
the enterprise and accordingly her hus-
band bought a dozen more cows. That
spring she set to work raising chickens.
She Matched nearly a thousand chicks
and when fall came had 500 laying pull
lets. OF course ample quarters had TO
be provided for winter time, but when
this was done and the pullets began to
lay the returns were all that she had
expected.
The number of mich cows was in
creased. Dairying on such a scale re-
quired much time and work and in or
der to reduce both to minimum she
H., fn1 Txyif
good separator, a big revolving churn
and a small gasoline engine to operate
both The SKINNED milk, worth sew
eral hundred dollars a year, goes to
help fatten a hundred shoatS on the
Schrumpf farm.
require much time except in the hatch
ing season. The hens are given the
freedom of the entire Schrumpf farm,
which consists of nearly 700 acres, IL
they choose to take it, and they Will
range for a radius of nearly half
mile from their houses, hunting bugs,
grasshoppers and picking seeds from
the grass and weeds In the summer
time they almost pick up a living
and only at morning and evenings are
they given light ration of kaffir corn
or some other small grain which is
scattered about the barnyard.
When the Matching season is on
Mrs. Schrumpf finds about every min
ute of her time at a premium. With
one or two incubators going and two
dozen hens all setting at the same time
constant attention is required.
The busiest as well as the most inter |
esting day for Mrs. Schrumpf is Fri
day, her market day. She drives a
strone one-horse road wagon, in the
front of which is room for a large gal
vanized iron butter box, which she had
made especially for carrying her but |
ter on ice, so that it reaches market /
in perfect condition. The egg crates /
occupy the rear part of the buggy and |
sometimes as many as 80 or 100 dozen !,
eggs are brought in at a trip. On one |
of her recent market days Mrs. |
had SO pounds of butter, |
which she sold for 25 cents a pound, |
netting $20.75, and she received a check !
for a little more than SIT for the eggs
she brought in, making her days sales
around $40