The New York herald., 1922-07-09
Fine Farming by Two Girls
Who, Planted Seeds with Soul

"voracious" dinner and get quickly to
bed. Society saw nothing Of them -
they OF 1t, and for their part they al
not miss 1t.
June came at last and on Sundays
when we did not work, of course
Kid and l delighted to take father
around our farm and point out TO him
our various prospective crops. He,
poor man. didn't know a tomato plant
from a potato. but he was as eager to
learn as we were to teach and when
we could pick for him the precise
vegetables he cared for and carry
them in TO be prepared for the Sunday
dinner we resembled a happy family
like the vicar OF Wakefield's before
his trouble came. Dad certainly was
proud of MS and he never ceased to
wonder how we did it and srill kept
up some pretensions to looking nice
when we We're not in farming rig.
Really all that was noticeably changed
by our hard work were our hands.
Tkey would get browner and browner.
1t was possible for us to protect our
faces with broad brimmed hats and
light wells. but we couldn't accom-
pish real work in gloves" 49,
Would Farm IntensiveIy
Or Not Farm at All
The rotation of crops was a thing
that the farmer girls were keen about.
for their farm was to be "intensively''
farmed or not at all. The yield of the
ten acre lot in beans and that of the
seven acre lot in peas was so good
that they were almost afraid to give
out the figures. fearing these would
be considered apocryphal. And at Red
Bank and other large villages in the
neighborhood the hands obtained the
very highest prices for these early
vegetables. Peas yielded up TO the last
of July and when the yield was over
the field was at once planted in tur-
nips.
BY this time the Yellow Bantam
corn aroused the affectionate thanks
of the maiden farmers. 1t had been
enormously responsive and again such
good prices were realized from il at
the exclusive markets and at private
sale that their hearts beat high with
the anticipation of keeping their work
to make the sixty acres pay. In one
day $500 ears OF Yellow Bantam corn
found its way to market and that Is
quite a good deal of corn.
I'VE are counting on our potato crop
to make up for any deficiency Of rev.
enue If one results after we have paid
up everything with the returns Of the
small field stuff. Fifty bushels to the
acre is considered a decent yield, but
our fields are going to return twice
that. You see."
The young woman who made this
prophecy did nor look in the least like
n farmer, or, in truth, as If she ever
did any useful work. She had motored
her guest over from the home place in
her little SHOW machine end wore
wonderful costume OF white chiffon
cloth with white kid shoes. white silk
stockings and a marvellous hat She
pointed with pride TO her waving corn
fields. table and field. to her acres OF
wrynecked squash and melons, the
former almost ripe and the latter due
in a couple of weeks. to her long lines
OF pole beans Qimas) and to the vast
prospect of rapidly ripening tomatoes.
ut has been perfectly splendid
work. said she with happy intake
of breath, land cannot tell you what
] have not learned in these few months
of real farming oh. I'm not going TO
bore you with any of the stale COM
plimentary speeches TO bountiful ma
ture nor to apostrophize the good. red
earth" Kid and l have learned things
which do not usually come out OF the
ground. We have learned poise ana
independence We have learned to
reason, or I think we have. Working
close to the ground as we've done
has taught US something of life and
it's problems as nothing else could have
done. We are now ready even In our
ignorance 10 study any question that
may come up for ourselves, and I
don't mean 70 confine these questions
TO plants and fields
The freedom we have had to make
mistakes of our own has taught us
not to hold with any zealotry to opin-
ions that we got we don't know where.
/ think it is only the stay ms that
cling narrowly to any creed
Only the Stay ms"
Cling to Narrow Creed
THE life has rid us of prejudice.
Most education is one or other system
Of imparting prejudices from master
TO pupil. All of us start in child
hood with store of them from which
we seldom recover. Well, IL you want
TO get rid of your set try farming.