Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-03-12
HOW SOME FARM AND WI.
LACE WOMEN MAKE MONEY.
(Southern Farm Journal.l

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Southern Farm Journal.)
In trying to answer the many an
peals that come t. me for information
feel constrained to ask: what is
your object in earning? If merely to
"be Independent" or to have more I'm.
cry. then don't do it. The woman who
properly cares for her home and FAM
lily surely earns her board and clothes
2 the c~onveniences of home life and
is independent. But If the farm In
come is absorbed by debt on the home
so that conveniences for the house, an
education for the children or the
pleasure of life-books, magazines,
music, pictures, an occasional trip,
etc.-are not otherwise to be had, then
the mother may try her hand com
mercially. But even then let her be-
ware lest she expend too much time
and strength and loose the better
things of life, for money is not all nor
the best by any means.
One woman makes a speciality oil
selling oId-fashioRed I've hominy. Liv-
ing some distance from town, she
sends it IN every Wednesday. She
uses a busllel of corn a week for five
or six months. It retails at 10 cents
a quart. AS the corr is home grown
there is no expense excepting the
commission her grocer charges.
Another makes a specially of SELL
ing sailed peanuts and peanut butter.
Small bags to hold the sailed peanuts
are made by pasting the edges of par
afne paper, which she buys at whole
sale. The peanut butter is packed In
small jelly glasses. Her children help
raise and she'll the peanuts and paste
the bags.
Another family raises forty or fifty
hogs annually, from which they sell to
private customers fresh sausage and
cured hams at % cents a pound, and
lard at 20 cents. The feet are clean
ed. cooked until the bones drop OUT,
highly spiced vinegar added, cooled
in a mold and sell at 20 cents a pound.
Heads and livers are made into head
cheese" and sell at 10 cents a pound.
Sausage, lard, picked pigs feet and
Lead cheese are made into pound pack
ages in paraine paper.
1t is almost impossible to buy cider
vinegar. Good housekeepers dislike
the. chemical compound on the mar
ket. Vinegar made from soft water
and molasses equals cider vinegar and
one should easily work up a demand
for it at from rs cents to 40 cents a
gallon.
Hodseradish prepared with home
made vinegar is all profit and sells
well for a long time in winter and
spring.
Grape juice is in demand and re-
tails at from 40 to 60 cents a quart.
Scuppernongs make an especially fine
article. Farmers Bulletins, No. 178,
122 and 70, give information about
making it, and may be had free by
. dressing Department OF Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.
O@e woman, four or five miles from
9 own OF two or three thousand in
habitants, gradually secured regular
customers for all the lightbread, cook
lee and pies she cared to bake. She
delivers each Tuesday and Saturday.
Another supplies two or three groc-
ers with Saratoga chips" making
them twice a week. AS they raise
their own potatoes, they yield a good
profit.
Clabber cheese is easily made, is in
good demand and brings profitable re.
turns from what might otherwise b
considered a waste product.
1 shall, in the near future, give nu-
merous other ways which ingenious
women have found successful, and
II ust every reader will find some sug-
gestion which she can adapt to her
own conditions. C. S. E.
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