1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
779 
Money Making on the Farm. 
A New England Worker. 
1 was iuterested in the paragraph 
about the New England girl who wishes 
to earn money at home, and I think it 
possible that I may give her some hints. 
Conditions and individuals differ so 
widely that it is impossible to lay down 
any hard-and-fast rules. A girl situated 
like the one in question must use her 
eyes and her brains, plan carefully and 
work conscientiously. She must not ex¬ 
pect to make much money at first, but 
if she does good work, at something peo¬ 
ple want, and sticks to it, she must suc¬ 
ceed in time. Two things I would recom¬ 
mend her to do at the outset; Keep strict 
account of all expenditures and receipts, 
and leave any false pride she may have, 
in some out of the way place where she 
won’t be able to find it. I think the ex¬ 
perience of another New England girl 
may be suggestive to others who are sit¬ 
uated like the one spoken of in The 
R. N.-Y. What I am going to tell about 
her is just as it happened. 
She began in her early teens to do all 
the housework, excepting the washing, 
for a family of four, and a part of the 
time five. She had a small allowance, 
and as she was not over strong at that 
time it was several years before she 
tried to earn any pin money. She was 
one who had a good many fads, and one 
of these was writing stories for amateur 
papers. Finally she tried sending things 
to professional papers, and after some 
discouragement she began to sell now 
and then a manuscript. She kept this 
up till at length she earned enough with 
her pen to pay all her personal expenses 
and have some money left over for ex¬ 
tras. Now I don’t want to be under¬ 
stood as advising every girl to go to 
writing stories. Not every girl has a 
liking for that kind of work, and not 
every girl would be willing to spend 
most of her spare time for three years 
in writing, before getting a cent in re¬ 
turn, as did this girl. This merely 
shows one way, and that it takes pa¬ 
tient work to bring results. While writ¬ 
ing was her main dependence, she had 
other strings to her bow. She had al¬ 
ways been very fond of flowers, and she 
had good success with them. She stud¬ 
ied their needs and fussed over them, 
and they responded. One Spring she 
bought a small Begonia at the green¬ 
house, kept it through the Summer, re¬ 
potting it once, and sold it for 15 cents 
more than she paid for it. The next 
year she had an order from a friend to 
start a dozen plants for Winter, and 
she sold a handsome maidenhair fern 
for a good price. She also raised about 
50 tomato plants for home use, and they 
were so fine that she could have sold 
them all and as many more if she had 
had them. 
Then she liked to cook. She made 
very good sponge cake and molasses 
cookies, and by letting people know of 
it, she got a few orders for these. She 
put up more than 100 quarts of tomatoes 
one year, and sold a good part of them 
at 20 cents a quart, including jars. One 
season she made butter. She was very 
careful and painstaking to have it good, 
and it sold readily. When it happened 
that there was anything on the farm 
that would go to waste, such as fruit or 
vegetables, and she had the time and 
could have the horse, she left her pride 
at home and peddled them out to her 
friends at the village. She gathered 
things like peas and green corn just be¬ 
fore starting, with the result that next 
year all her friends urged her to plant 
a good many peas, because hers were so 
much better than any they were able 
to buy elsew'here. 
While all these things, except the 
writing, brought in very little money, 
there was no reason why each one might 
not have been developed into a paying 
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business if she had felt like giving up 
the others for it. She also saw other 
opportunities which she could not at¬ 
tempt, one of which was taking in wash¬ 
ing. If a girl is strong and can have 
things conveniently arranged, she can 
make good pay by washing, only very 
often pride stands in the way, and it 
is forgotten that any necessary work 
which is well done is worthy of respect. 
I know of a case where a woman de¬ 
clared she could earn more money and 
earn it more easily by washing than by 
working in the factory, and she made 
good wages there. It would seem that 
the girl I have been writing of had 
enough irons in the fire, but her friends 
have urged her to try other things, such 
as bees, Belgian hares. Angora cats, 
geese, sheep, peacocks, boarding old 
people, taking Summer boarders and 
boarding State and town children. No 
one has suggested dressmaking, or mil¬ 
linery, because it is known that her 
tastes do not run in these directions, 
but she has a standing order for a yard 
of knit lace whenever she has the time 
to make it. 
If a girl is about to go into the busi¬ 
ness of earning money at home, she 
wants first to select some work that she 
has a taste for, so that it will be a plea¬ 
sure, and not drudgery. Then she wants 
to figure out just where the profit is 
coming in. If she is going to make 
cake, for instance, she must reckon up 
the cost of the materials and fuel, then 
add a fair amount for her time; then if 
she finds she cannot get her price for 
the finished product she would better 
keep out of cake making. It will be 
much better if she can sell direct to the 
consumer; middlemen do eat up the 
profits so. It may not be as pleasant, 
and she may dislike to advertise her 
goods, but she will soon get used to it. 
The most important point is to have the 
product always the same in quality, and 
always the best of its kind. Good, con¬ 
scientious work is always in demand, 
though one may sometimes have to work 
to find those who want it, and may even 
have to go to considerable pains to con¬ 
vince them that it is faithfully and well 
done. DOROTHY BARTLETT. 
PouHry Farm and Garden. 
The case of the young girl who wants 
to earn money, but who is obliged to 
stay at home on the farm to help her 
mother, is one of interest. Thousands 
of girls and women are situated in just 
such circumstances. Thousands more 
have left the farm, for whom it would 
have been far better had some duty com¬ 
pelled them to stay. The editor well 
says that “it ought not to be necessary 
to leave the country in order to obtain 
money with which to gratify a few sim¬ 
ple and honest desires.” It is not neces¬ 
sary. There are better opportunities to 
earn spending money right at home 
without sacrificing liberty and individu¬ 
ality than in the city. The editor wants 
only things which have been done, but 
some things can be done which have not 
‘been, or at least some things can be 
done by such a girl which have not been 
done by other girls, but which have been 
done by other people. One of the most 
natural ways for earning money under 
such circumstances is in poultry-keep¬ 
ing. Any girl who has a taste for poul¬ 
try can obtain considerable spending 
money by intelligent management. If 
poultry is already kept on the farm and 
the income goes to Father, let her pre¬ 
vail upon him to give her 25 per cent 
of the gross sales in return for her care 
and management, he furnishing the 
feed. I know one young woman who 
gets this percentage, so at least that 
much of this suggestion has been done. 
Certainly many other women keep hens 
and make some profit from them. 
Here is another suggestion, though 
perhaps no girl has done it. Yesterday 
I visited a little grapery where a minute 
insect had nearly ruined the crop this 
year. This was discouraging, but the 
insect had been met and conquered by 
others before, and can be as easily con¬ 
quered in this case. The grapery was 
not large, yet the owner said that they 
should have obtained 600 or 800 pounds 
of grapes from it. This was a cold gra¬ 
pery, requiring no expense for heat. It 
did require some capital to put up the 
building, which would be a hindrance 
in some cases, but not in all. Near any 
good-sized village these grapes would 
find ready sale at paying prices. If the 
home market were unavailable growing 
grapes in heated houses for shipment 
to New York or Boston might be prefer¬ 
able. I know of no young woman who 
has done this, but I do know of graper¬ 
ies which yield excellent returns, and 
the product from one house would give 
such a young woman more spending 
money than she could earn behind the 
counter with many times the number of 
hours spent that would be required in 
caring for the crop. I do know one 
young woman who manages a little 
greenhouse filled with flowering plants 
who secures some spending money in 
that way. I know many greenhouses 
not managed by women which yield con¬ 
siderable money to their owners. I 
know no reason why these could not be 
managed' by a woman as well as they 
are by a man. 
If none of these things seems attrac¬ 
tive, Father might be prevailed upon to 
turn over some one field or part of a 
field to her use, with the definite agree¬ 
ment that whatever she could produce 
upon that land should belong to her. 
Then let her begin to study the possi¬ 
bilities of that field. With pencil and 
paper let her carefully figure what 
might be produced upon it, getting ad¬ 
vice from Father and others as to the 
cost of labor required and all other ex¬ 
penses. Then let her add a liberal al¬ 
lowance to these expenses, and carefully 
figure the probable returns. Let her not 
be satisfied until she has studied many 
possibilities. She ought to find some¬ 
thing which would yield a profit after 
paying for the labor and the expense of 
growing. I should like to see a hun¬ 
dred young women try such an experi¬ 
ment and report their results. Women 
have made money from land, as the col¬ 
umns of The R. N.-Y. will testify; other 
women can do it. If this young woman 
can leave home long enough, let her 
take a short course in one of our agri¬ 
cultural colleges, like those offered at 
the Rhode Island College for the com¬ 
ing Winter. If she cannot do that, let 
her take a correspondence course, as 
several women are doing in our own 
school of correspondence. By means of 
such study, I am sure that any bright, 
pushing, young woman can find ways 
to make a very satisfactory amount of 
pocket money without leaving home. 
FRED W. CARD. 
R. I. Agricultural College. 
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