The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-06
WOMEN ARE
REAL FARMERS
MINNESOTA WOMEN HAVE MADE
SUCCESSFUL NORTH DAKOTA
tFARMERs-~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
Miss Eva Alcott, visiting Mrs. ]. o.
Pomeroy, al. Minneapolis. They are
partners in the management Of a 480-
acre farm at Dickinson, N. D.
St Mi Ps, Aico1t vas a vocal teacher in
Gurr1e was g. bookkeeper six years ago.
Today their thoughts are almost en-
tirely centered on the fact that their
6utter took the first premium In the
Stark county fair last October and that
at the same fair they also captured
first prizes OF barley and spells, on
Rhode Island Reds, bronze turkeys and
eki ducks and 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
falr and their samples were sent to
Norway in the exhibit Of north west
farm products sent across the ocean
last fall. +: .'
I'VE have suffered hardship, oh dear,
yes" said Miss Alcott, who, by the
way, is a cousin of Louisa M. G1cott.
who wrote Little Women" but arm,
ing has a lure n we are in it to
stay" y
Miss Alcott said that in the days
when she was a vocal teacher and Miss
Currie was 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
nat pee IN their bonnets for several
years n nothing had come of it, but
about six years ago, while they were
out In North Dakota on a concert tour.
MISS Currie being the manager Of the
tour. they took up a couple Of home
bought the farm which they now own.
They had no knowledge of farming
nor OF stock. Miss Alcott couldn't even
cook and she laughed as she related
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
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 az as
sets, Miss Currie 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, now 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 own in all 500 acres.
Ihelr livestock includes twenty-five
horses, twenty two 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 ar industry in North Da-
kota,. she and h'r partner rather stand
out in that community as having a
cattle herd. SIX years ago there was
hardly a milch .ow to be found in that
vicinity, she aided.
Miss Currie md Miss Alcott are of
the opinion tia 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 around Dickinson
they declare Nat dairying is coming to
be the big Industry in the state and CO.
operative ,reameries which now do not
exist in he state ave got to come.
North DAKOTA farmers have got to
build silosalso for economic raising OF
cattle, sine pasture is getting scarce,
There are lut five silos in Stark county
now, thesetwo farmer women say, but
they declaH farmers generally have got
to come tothem.
This farl, managed by women was
sowed lastyear to wheat. oats, corn,
othy. The deal which the owners have
in min ant (Which they hope some day
to realize ito make it a seed farm.
Meanwhis they have been putting
their mono into the things which
seemed to BY best for the time being.