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Later the Railroad Co. was notified they would have to deliver said 

 calf to her destination, which they did, giving her a ride in the express 

 car. 



Three years later, Black Bossy was a cow, and probably thinking to 

 save the housewife any extra work, skimming milk and churning cream 

 she gave skim milk. Six months later all they had left of Black Bossy 

 was a beautiful black Poled Angus robe. 



When the household goods arrived up north, his wife and their little 

 three-year-old daughter, their foreman's wife and little daughter, started 

 for the north woods as their friends thought. 



When they reached Thompsonville they were notified there was a 

 strike on the Ann Arbor Railroad and no one knew when there would 

 be a train, so they went to a nearby hotel (this was 10 o'clock at night) 

 only to be told it was full. They went back to the depot and found 

 there would be a train in a few minutes, that would take them within 

 four miles of their home. Thinking it would be better to be four miles 

 than twenty as they were then, they took the train which arrived in 

 the freight yards of So. Frankfort about midnight, where they were 

 told there was no hotel nearer then a mile, no bus, no telephone, every- 

 thing a glare of ice, and two little girls asleep, baggage, band boxes, 

 bird-cage and such things that go with moving. 



While deciding the next move to make two jolly traveling men offered 

 to carry the little girls, which removed the greatest trouble, and they 

 all started for a hotel. It probably was the first real work those men 

 ever did, for they did some puffing before getting those little girls 

 where they could walk, but very gentlemanly, saw the comical side of 

 the affair. 



The next day was bright and pretty and the husband, thinking to 

 get some word from his little family drove to town, to find them wait- 

 ing to be taken out to their first home of 80 acres of stumps, brush, 

 and woodland, which was the nucleus around which has been builded 

 what is now known as the Rose Orchards. There my life work has 

 been put in helping to make them a success. 



FRUIT GROWING FROM A WOMAN'S STANDPOINT. 



To talk on this subject, I will have to refer to our work, as it is all 

 I know. What we have done, all things equal, others can do. A per- 

 son said to me the other day, "Every woman can't do what vou have 

 done." Perhaps not, but they might improve on my work. It wouldn't 

 be best for every woman to engage in fruit work, as there are other 

 lines of work for us to engage in. Just now we can vote and perhaps 

 some day, hold office. I heard Prof. French of Lansing, say, "Men do 

 not do their work haphazard now days." In speaking of the fruit 

 work, he said, "They spray, prune, pick, pack and market their fruit 

 with brains." I believe we have brains and certainly the gentlemen 

 think so or they wouldn't have given us the right of elective franchise, 

 and thereby removing from us the stigma of mental weakness and tak- 

 ing us from the ranks of idiots, imbeciles, Indians and criminals. 



Fruit growing is very interesting, in fact it is fascinating. You plant 

 the little tree, watch the buds start, then the blossoms and later 



