The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-08-27
MAKES GARDEN PAY
GOOD DIVIDENDS
KEEPING UP WITH HUSBAND IN
EARNING MONEY ON THE
FARM.

That a woman has a remarkable
chance of making an equal amount
Of money through her own efforts on
the farm with her husband has been
SHOWN by Mrs. Stillman Blaisden OF
Cornyille, Maine She raises black
berries and carries on garden that
nets her about $500 year.
Up until fifteen years ago Mrs
Blaisdell had taken considerable in.
Lerest In raising flowers and people
passing her door WOULD call and she
gave many away. She put in con
siderable work caring for them and
one day ii occurred to her that if the
same energy were put into something
else on the farm she could make con
siderable money.
She started in by raising currants
and few raspberries. These paid
well but little later she set out
some blackberry bushes. She found
that these did much better, required
| less work, and brought more money.
1 She extended her bed until she had
about quarter Of an acre. She has
now extended her bed to one half
acre.
Her method of setting out and car
ing for these berries has all the
out new bed she gets her ground
ready as If she were to plant corn
CT potatoes. She sets the rows six
feet apart and the hills far enough
apart to put, for the first and second
years, fall harvesting crop such as
potatoes, beans or corn between. She
also plants between the rows a row
of corn or some such crop to cult
yate This allows her something in
return for her labor expended in car
ing for the blackberry bushes the
first two years and the same time heI
bed gets the benefit of cultivation
The blackberries bear a little the first
] season and at the end of the fourth
year they have come into full bearing
but will bear equally as well iron
then until the plants are fifteen years
. old
The only work required, she claims
after the first two years in caring fol
the bed is each spring and fall tC
clean out the dead bushes or any
| superliuous growth. She harvests
about 60 bushels each season from
| her half acre.
| Mrs. Blaisdell lives about five miles
| from village of about 1000 inhabi
| tants. She disposes of her berries
at retail prices without any difficult!
| to families in the village She nov
! even has orders long before the Der
| ries are ripe.
The picking is of some importance
but not so much so as with any othe
small fruit In the case of straw
berries it is difficult to hire children
because they tread down the plants
but not so in the case of blackberrie
employs children for two cents pc
quart and the bushes are none tn
worse for their having been in them
Mrs Blaisdell and her husband nov
live on the farm of 100 acres alone
They have brought up nine children
of their own and this fruit raisin!
end of the farm Is entirely under the
supervision and work of Mrs. Blais
dell She feels that though her enc
of the farming does not pay enough
to support the family, yet she feels
that twice as much money could be
raised with a very little effort, eX'
tending her beds of blackberries
Aside from that Mrs. Blaisdell has
been able to keep comparatively well
by being out of doors, though she
had before that been fighting sick
ness.