1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
747 
The Girl on the Farm. 
WHAT MONEY-MAKING OCCUPATIONS ABE 
OPEN TO HEB ? 
The following question which was 
pi'inted on page 696, has excited much 
interest among our readers, and some of 
their opinions and experiences are now 
given: 
Seeing many helpful things in The R. 
N.-Y., I now write to ask you whether you 
know of any work I could do at home. I 
am 20 years old, live on a farm, and I am 
staying at home to help Mother with the 
work. 
A Woman Poultry Raiser. 
Tell the young girl in the country to 
take up caring for poultry, and she will 
find it a good job and a profitable one, 
for what money is invested in it. I have 
done so for years, besides doing my 
housework for four or five, and also 
making from 20 to 30 pounds of butter 
a week, and the poultry brought me the 
most money and the easiest work of it 
all. I only keep from 30 to 35 hens and 
pullets and two cockerels, and cleared 
every year from $60 to $80 on them. 
Once in a while it would reach $100. I 
have now for 12 years kept a steady ac¬ 
count of all, debtor and creditor, and 
can give you the full list. I feed well; 
they have all they can eat three times 
a day, and little chicks oftener, but of 
course they must have some care. If the 
inquirer wishes to write to me I will 
give her my way of feeding and eating 
for them, as I should like to interest 
country girls in poultry work for their 
spending money. mbs. h. s. 
Connecticut. 
Poultry and Flowers. 
In answer to the inquiry of the girl 
on page 696, why could not she, with her 
father’s or brother’s assistance, engage 
in the poultry business in a light way, 
and the net profits of the business into 
the young woman’s pocket would be 
as much as many a working girl's salary 
above her board and laundry bills. She 
might take up floriculture. Besides the 
many fiowers she could sell she could 
get a little fortune by exhibiting at the 
Fall fairs, and the premiums would be 
duplicated by some of the seedsmen, if 
she bought her seeds from them. I know 
of instances where both of the above 
ideas have been carried out by young 
girls on the farm with good paying re¬ 
sults, and 70 per cent of their time de¬ 
voted to helping Mother; and then the 
satisfaction of being “your own boss” 
is everything. young eakmeb. 
Ohio. 
A Bunch of Suggestions. 
We are asked how a young country 
woman who is staying at home to help 
her mother with the work may earn 
some cash, and we are moreover told 
not to theorize but to tell what we know 
has been done. Well, here goes in an at¬ 
tempt to comply, first being allowed to 
say that we will give this young woman 
credit for the expression of a desire that 
is something more than a vague aspira¬ 
tion after the unattainable. ' But has 
she really a set purpose to earn some 
money, and the necessary will power 
and physical force to make her keep on 
trying until she finally succeeds? If she 
has her parents must give her a chance, 
and help her by every means possible. 
A young woman in the country may 
keep bees. They will work for her 
while she is helping her mother. She 
may raise ducks or chickens if she can 
have facilities for keeping them separate 
from the farm hens. This has been suc¬ 
cessfully done by many women. She 
may nurse into vigor the weakling 
lambs that would otherwise be allowed 
to perish, and have their wool and af¬ 
fection for her pay. 'This also has been 
done, and the money was used to pay 
the cost of a serious but successful sur¬ 
gical operation. She may rescue and 
raise into value the runt pigs until they 
are fit to kill. She may “dressmake” 
if she can and will. She may “make 
over” the women’s hats for a small fee 
of 50 cents each if she has a knack for 
it, or perhaps she can acquire the art 
by study and practice. I have just heard 
of a woman who made money mending 
for Summer boarders, and of another 
who sold patchwork quilts, unquilted. 
She may dry fruit. Tons of fruit are 
allowed to rot on the gi-ound that might 
be turned into cash by nimble fingers. I 
would advise the use of a small evapor¬ 
ator that would sit upon the stove. They 
could be bleached and neatly packed in¬ 
to empty starch boxes, and would always 
sell. This is a good field for home work, 
as it is admitted that much of the dried 
fruit as it comes from the large evapor¬ 
ators is not carefully prepared, and 
needs to be looked over and trimmed 
over before it is used. A nice appearing 
package of strictly fine dried fruit sells 
readily. A friend in a village sells all 
she can make of daintily prepared 
pot cheese. Another sold for $5 to a 
New York seedsman two ounces of care¬ 
fully saved tomato seed of a new sort. 
A large essential oil factory agreed to 
take all the pennyroyal that could be 
gathered, and the sheep fields were full 
of It. Another friend had a large grape 
vine of a new kind and sold every eye 
that could be cut off to a propagator for 
five cents each. 
If this young New England girl likes 
fiowers well enough to be willing to 
know them thoroughly and could love 
them well enough to get down (or up?) 
among them in order to succeed in their 
cultivation, let her father set aside half 
an acre of his best land near the house 
in plain sight of the road, and manure 
it as heavily as if he were about to grow 
asparagus and then turn her loose in it 
until she had worked up “a fiower 
patch” that would just astonish the na¬ 
tives. Let her fill it full of all sorts of 
hardy plants in great rows; the brilliant 
brightly-colored hardy Phlox with their 
immense panicles of bloom lasting for 
months, Iris, Delphinium, roses, etc. 
Have a nice big sign painted “Plants for 
Sale,” and nail it up in plain sight. 'That 
would keep off beggars. No matter if 
some one does say: “Ain’t it mean! 
Betsy Smithers won’t give a body even 
the least little speck of one of them fiow¬ 
ers of her’s, and I hinted I would like a 
mite ever so much.” Every such re¬ 
mark only advertises the business, and 
the fact that it is run on a strictly-cash- 
one-price-to-all basis, and brings cus¬ 
tomers from all over the country. 
She might also rig up a homemade 
propagating bench. (This also has been 
done.) A big drygoods box with a false 
bottom set in amidships, with three 
inches of coarse moist sand on it, with 
a B burner oil lamp burning under it for 
bottom heat, and she could then strike 
all manner of plants from cuttings full 
as readily as the fiorists, and sell them 
for cash. She might raise seedling 
plants in the odd moments. They cer¬ 
tainly would grow for her gladly while 
she was dutifully helping her mother 
with the work, and finally, sisters, 
where there is a will there is a way. In 
fact, there are several ways, and doubt¬ 
less many more than have here been 
mentioned. Make your choice. 
New York j. yates peek. 
Rural Recipes. 
I dearly love these Autumn days; 
With joy my heart throbs high. 
The frost is on the pumpkin, and 
The pumpkin’s in the pie. 
—Phila. Record. 
Pumpkin Marmalade.—Four pounds 
of yellow pumpkin, 4^ pounds of sugar, 
half a dozen lemons and half a dozen 
oranges; cut the pumpkin into very 
small dice; mix the sugar with it and let 
stand over night. Peel the oranges and 
lemons with a very sharp knife, and 
boil the rinds two hours, changing the 
water twice. When the rinds are cold 
trim off as much of the white part as 
possible to pi-event bitterness. Put the 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use“Mrs.Wins- 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
ingredients all together in a preserving 
kettle, and boil for two or three hours 
until the right consistency is reached. 
Place in jelly glasses, and keep in a 
dark, cool place. 
Banana Pie.—^This is nothing more 
than a custard pie improved by sliced 
bananas. Line a pie dish with a rich 
crust and let it cool. Slice two large 
bananas into the crust. Boil one cupful 
of milk, one-half cupful of sugar, the 
yolks of two eggs, and two tablespoon¬ 
fuls of cornstarch until thick. Let this 
custard cool before pouring it over the 
bananas. Make a meringue of two egg 
whites beaten stiff with two tablespoon¬ 
fuls of sugar and pour it over the pie. 
Set in the oven just long enough to 
brown. 
iSnipdoodles.—One cupful of sugar, 
one tablespoonful of butter, one-half 
cupful of milk, one egg, one cupful of 
fiour, one teaspoonful of baking pow¬ 
der, one teaspoonful cinnamon. Cream 
the butter, add the sugar, then the egg, 
well beaten; then the flour, baking pow¬ 
der and cinnamon sifted together, and 
the milk. When nearly done sprinkle 
with sugar. When brown remove from 
the oven, cut into squares, and remove 
quickly with a knife. They should be 
thin and crispy. 
Grape Pickle.—Pick sound grapes 
from the stems without breaking them 
and put them in a jar. For every seven 
pounds of the fruit allow a quart of 
vinegar, three pounds of brown sugar 
and a tablespoonful of whole cloves and 
stick cinnamon, boil together for a few 
minutes, and when cold enough to bear 
putting the finger in pour over the un¬ 
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391-1 Child’s Frock, 
6 mo., 1, 2, 4 yr. 
cooked grapes. Cover jar with a saucer 
and do not disturb for two or three 
weeks. 
Angel Cakelets.—Beat the whites of 
four eggs and half a level teaspoonful 
cream tartar until stiff; sift together 
half cupful fine granulated sugar and 
half cupful of flour; add gradually to the 
eggs. Flavor with quarter teaspoonful 
of almond. Bake in little cake pans. 
Sprinkle with powdered sugar and bake 
in a moderate oven 20 minutes. 
Santa Clara Prune Cake.—Two cupfuls 
of sugar creamed with one-half cupful 
of butter, three eggs (whites beaten sep¬ 
arately) two-thirds cupful of sweet milk, 
one heaping teaspoonful of baking pow¬ 
der, one tablespoonful of powdered 
mace, one cupful of chopped walnuts, 
one cupful of chopped prunes that have 
been steamed. Line a cake pan with 
buttered paper, fill in a layer of the cake 
batter, spread a layer of the chopped 
prunes and over this put a layer of the 
nuts, then another layer of cake, and so 
on until the pan is two-thirds full. Bake 
in a steady but not quick oven. 
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