Williams news., 1922-05-19
ION EASY STREET"
Women "Farmerettes" Make Money in Western Canada.
Many Are Taking Advantage of the Opportunity Offered by the Fer
 tile Land and Fine Climate

| In many parts of Western Canada
 are to be found women owning and
 running farms for themselves, and | what is more, making them pay. May Hazlett, an English girl, who lived on | farm in the Touchwood hills, in Sas- katchewan, for the past four years, looking after her stock and cultivating
 her land, is one of these. The farm
 was originally her brothers homestead,
 at which time Miss Hazlett was a
 stenographer. Her brother was killed
 while fighting with the Canadian forces
 at Vimy Ridge. Neighbors advised
 Miss Hazlett to sell the farm, but she
 decided that she was tired of the
 "eternal pounding and became farm
 erette
 Mrs. Mary J. Blackburn, a pioneer woman farmer of Alberta, has just
 added 16O acres to her farm near Hardisty. Coming from Eastern Can ada, Mrs. Blackburn homesteaded quarter section in 1902. She had two Holstein heifers, a bull, and $17 in cash. She lived in a tent the first summer and in a sod shack in the winter. Her first crop put her, as she tells the story, lon Easy street." In ten years she had herd of 60 pure-bred Holstein cattle and was op- erating a prosperous dairy. A fine residence has supplanted the sod hut. 1T milked my cows, raised my cattle, cut hay and stacked it all by myself,'' said Mrs. Blackburn "I started on bare prairie with no money, and made good. I worked hard, but the expert ence was wonderful
 It has generally been conceded that farming is a mans job. It has long been considered that a woman'S place on the farm was in the house, with a few attendant duties, looking after the and the garden. But times are changing.
 DemOnStrative of the present fem1- nine initiative, there are two young ladies farming extensively and with good profit too, in Western Canada. Some years ago family located a 16O- acre farm in the Oak Lake district, Later the father died leav- Ing his two daughters and aged wife quarter section. Instead of selling the effects and moving to town to take employment, the girls decided | to work the place.
 While the mother looked after the | household duties the daughters did the | ,arnf work They did the blowing, har- towing, seeding, having, harvesting, l stocking, feeding and other farm oper-
  getting out of wood the help of man i vas never sought. Instead of a 16O- Icre place, with seven horses and ten .attle, which they started with, they lave a 1,120-acre farm, twenty-five lead of heavy horses and nearly hun fred head of cattle, mostly pure-breds. Their farm buildings. equipment and fields would be objects Of 'ride to the owners in any country.
 Their accomplishment has not only ,een profitable but pleasant, and they rave enjoyed every home advantage They are two entertaining and bright ,irls and have all the feminine charm if womanhood. Their manlike occupa ion has not given them a masculine haracter or appearance, as some of he older generations might imagine. Their gallant struggle for success sig lifies the truth in the oft-repeated maxim of Western Canada, GA little assistance and the soil, with it's natur- Il richness and Gods sunshine will oon pay for the land itself"
 If you wish to learn more of what Western Canada can do, write for a oDy of "Canada West" which will be nailed to you free by your nearest Canadian government agent.-Adver iSement.