The Idaho recorder., 1922-05-26
ION EASY Street"
Women "Farmerettes" Make
Money In Western Canada.
Many Arc Taking Advantage Of ths
Opportunity Offered by tho 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
Hazlstt, an English girl. who lived on
q farm in the Touehwood hills, In Sas-
katehswan, for the past four years.
looking after her stock and cuftivatlna
her land, Is one Of these. The farm
was originally her brothers homestead
at which time Miss Haziett was
stsnographer. Her brother was killed
while fighting with the Canadian forces
at vimy Ridge. Neighbors advised
Miss Hazlstt to sell the farm, but she
decided that she was tired Of the
"eternal pounding" and became farm
erette.
Mrs. Mary ]. Blackburn, pioneer
woman farmer of Alberta, has just
added 100 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 SIT In
cash. She lived in tent the first
summer and in sod shack In the
winter. Her first crop put her, as
she tells the story ION Easy street.
In ten years she had a herd OF 6U
| pure bred Holstein cattle and was op-
Grating prosperous dairy. A fine
residence has supplanted the sod hut
81 MIXED my cows, raised my cattle,
cut hay and stacked it all by myself"
said Mrs. Blackburn. 81 started on
bare prairie with no money, and made
good. l worked hard, but the expert
ence was wonderful"
It has generally been conceded that
farming is a mans job. 1t has long
been considered that woman's place
on the farm was in the house, with a
few attendant duties, looking after the
chickens and the garden. But times
are changing.
Demonstrative Of the present feml-
nine initiative, there are two young
ladies farming extensively and with
good profit too, in Western Canada.
Some years ago family located l6O.
acre farm In the Oak Lake district,
Manitoba. Later the father died, leav.
Ing his two daughters and aged wife a
mortgaged 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
farm work They did the plowing, har
rowing, seeding, haying, harvesting
stocking, feeding and other farm oper
atoms. Except at threshing time, the
getting out of wood, the help of mar
was never sought. Instead of q 16O
acre place, with seven horses and tel
cattle, which they started with, the.
have a 1120acre farm, twenty-five
, head Of heavy horses and nearly hun
dred head Of CATTLE mostly pure-breds
, Their farm buildings. equipment ant
/ well-kept fields would be objects o
: pride to the owners in any country.
Their accomplishment has not onl.
been profitable but pleasant, and the,
, have enjoyed every home advantage
) They are two entertaining and brigh
girls, and have all the feminine charr
J., Of womanhOOd. Their manlike occupa
tion has not given them a masculin
5 character or appearance, as some o
: the older generations might imagine
Their gallant struggle for success sig
. nifies the truth In the oft-repeate
A maxim Of Western Canada. "A littl
e assistance and the SOIL with its natul
| ~ -io
= soon pay for the land itself"
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e Western Canada can do, write for
copy of Canada West" which will b
h mailed to you free by your neares
:, Canadian government agent.-Advel
= tiSement.