The Carlisle independent., 1919-12-04
A COLLEGE GIRL BACK ON THE
 FARM
Some Things She Showed Dad and the
 Boys, and Mother Too

Williams during the family council be ing held upon her return from one of Americas leading colleges from which she had graduated with honors. Grace's mother had set her heart upon her daughter accepting a position as teacher in the college from which she had so re gently graduated. Her father didn't know about it" for Grace had been away from home the most of the time for the previous five years and he, iatherlike in his selfishness, wanted much that his only daughter should stay for few years at least, on the home farm.
 It was a farm where plenty was the rule. but where work for all hands was the rule also, and Grace's decision as this story opens had been ill faver of the farm.
 But, father" she said. doesn't mean that l shall take up the work of playing the piano and sitting in the hammock during the summer and sitting by the fire reading stories during the winter, for don't feel that I have been brought up and educated for the sake of settling down as d parasite
 This suited the fathers ideas exactly, for he was not a believer in parasites, either male or female. However when Grace made her business proposition to him he was somewhat taken back. it being such an extraordinary proposition for girl 22 years old to make.
 She said, You and the boys have a sood-sized herd of grade beef cattle, and my proposition is this, that you sell all the grades on the farm and purchase an equal number of purebred registered cows. l will take full charge of the herd. do all the feeding and sell the pro duee, and for all my work will accept the increased income the purebred herd, under my management, returns over and above what the grade herd has been bringing in on an average for the past five years
 But" said the father do you sup pose you will be able to do all the feed ing of 35 COWS, break the calves to hal ter and do all the other work that is necessary to be done where purebred cattle are handled?"
 T rather think so.' was the reply. for you will remember I was champion basketball player in my college, and doubt if feeding cows is any harder work than playing basketball, when one has conveniences for handling the feed. So the trade was made.
 Then turning to her mother. Grace said: II will make the same trade with you, Mother You have 200 common hens; sell these and purchase 200 stan- dard bred hens 1 will take entire charge of the flock and give you the amount for your share that your book shows your hens have brought in year. ly for the past five years The moth CT was glad to be relieved of the work of caring for the big flock of hens, and closed the deal at once.
 Now, father" she said: Il would like to rent that two-acre piece of sandy loam land that you have been using for a hog-feeding yard for several - ,,-, = tho ,,ra-a,t -ummar My ldea is to plant the piece i'll strawoer- rie, and raspberries. It will be neces- sary for me to hire the picking done, but I think the other work connected with the fruit, together with the care of the cattle and chickens, will keep me comfortably busy"
 It is not the purpose of this story to tell of the discouragements that came to Grace during the first year; the mis- takes she made; the trouble she had in establishing her trade in the purebred stock: how tired she got until she be- came used to the new work.
 Enough to say that she has succeed ed ill making yearly income just three times what she would have received had she accepted the position as teacher. led an independent out of door life. and at the end of five years has the reputa- tion of being the best stock-raiser in her section of her native state.
 The only fly in the ointment, as far as her father and mother are concerned is that there is young stock farmer that Grace met at one of the state fairs three years ago who is making regular trips to the Williams Farm, and they have great fears for the pure bred stock business on the home farm A. L. French--ln Progressive Farmer.
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