The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-06
WOMEN ARE
REAL FARMERS
MINNESOTA WOMEN HAVE MANN
SUCCESSFUL NORTH DAKOTA
FARMERs-ARE SPENDING THE
HOLIDAY SEASON AT THEIR FOR
MER HOMES IN MINNEAPOLIS.

Two women, well known in North
Dakota and Minnesota, who stepped
out Of business life six years ago and
became North Dakota farmers, are in
Minneapolis for a mid-Winter holiday
with a splendid record OF farm achieve.
ments to their credit. They are Miss
| Margaret Currie, who Ia visiting her
mother, Mrs. Emma J. Crandali. and
Miss Eva Alcott, visiting Mrs. J. o,
Pomeroy, a t Minneapolis. They arc
acre farm at Dickinson, N. D..
Miss Alcoft was a vocal teacher IN
st. Paul n Minneapolis, and Miss
Currie was q bookkeeper six years ago
To-Day their thoughts are almost en-
tirely centered on the fact that their
| butter took the first premium in The
Stark county fair last October and thai
at the same fair they also Captured
first prizes on barley and spelts, on
Rhode Island Reds, bronze turkeys and
Pekin ducks n second prize on sad
! die horses.
A bit OF a halo of glory is added
from the fact that their barley took
first prize at the North Dakota state
fair n their samples were snnt 70
Norway in the exhibit of north west
farm products sent across the ocean
last fall. '.E>
I'VE have suffered hardship, oh dear,
yes" said Miss Alcott, who, by the
| dy, AS d Cpucll VI Louisa IN. hlHnft.
who wrote Little Women" 'but farm,
ing has a lure and we are In 1t to
stay" 70
Miss AIcott said that in the DAYS
when h was vocal teacher and Miss
Currie vas a bookkeeper they spent ali
their holidays looking for a desirable
suburban site near the twin cities to
start a chicken farm. They had had
that bee" in their bonnets for several
years nothing had come Of it, but
l. about civ yyn1rG y ,r,tIIa L-- -
out in North Dakota on a concert tour.
| Miss Currie being the manager of the
tour, they took UP a couple of home
steads and very shortly thereafter
bought the farm which they now own.
They had no knowledge of farming
nor Of stock. Miss Alcott couldn't even
cook n she laughed as she related
how she tried to cook enough escal-
loped potatoes to feed twenty harvest
hands the year they cut their first crop.
She didn't know how foolish such a
dish as escalloped potatoes for hungry
harvest hands was until after that ex-
perience, she said.
Miss Currie could ride horseback and
had a good head for business and her
partner says she never has been afraid
of work. With these qualities as as
sets, Miss Currte has looked after much
of the outdoor work of the farm and
particularly OF the buying and selling.
She put On overalls last summer and
worked in the field cutting thirty acres
each Of flax and timothy. She knows,
too, how to drive a shrewd bargain in
cattle buying.
The two women farmers, who are the
only ones anywhere near Dickinson, N.
D., have 400 actes under cultivation and
eighty acres in pasture. Including their
homesteads, they w in all 500 acres.
Their livestock includes twenty-five
horses, twenty-five head Of cattle and
thirty hogs.
Miss Alcott remarked that twenty
two of cattle would not sound like
much to the average farmer. but she
added that sincs dairying is just be-
ginning to be al industry in North Da-
kota, she and her partner rather stand
out in that community as having a
cattle herd. Sir years ago there was
hardly a mich cow to be found in that
vicinity, she added.
Miss Currie and Miss Alcott are OF
the opinion tina; wheat farming Is new
err going to b. the salvation Of the
state of North Dakota. Their farm Is
in the heart of the hard-wheat raising
belt which extends round Dickinson
FOR e-a1inG. Of 4nn n,ilaa NAuarthalas
they declare that dairying is coming tc
be the big industry in the state n co.
operative creameries which now do no
North Dakota farmers have got tt
build silos also for economic raising Of
cattle, since pasture Is getting scarce
There are but five silos in Stark county
now, these two farmer women say, blu
they declare farmers generally have go
to come to them.
This farm, managed by wa
sowed last year to wheat, oats, corn
barley, spelts, alfalfa, millet and tim.
othy. The ideal which the owners havt
in mind and which they hope some day
to realize is to make it a seed farm.
Meanwhile, they have been putting
their money into the things which
seemed to pay best for the time being