1913. 
THE RUHAIv NEW-YORKER. 
1366 
Business by Parcel Post. 
The development of parcel post offers 
opportunity for farm women. The sys¬ 
tem is now sure to be extended and im¬ 
proved. The limit of weight will be grad¬ 
ually increased up to 60 or even 100 
pounds. Rates will be rearranged in 
time so as to make the service more ef¬ 
fective than now. There can be no ques¬ 
tion about these things and enterprising 
farm women are sure to find a new op¬ 
portunity for enlarging their business 
and opportunity. 
The farm woman is generally better 
qualified to handle such a direct trade 
than her husband, father or brother. She 
is naturally neater and has keener in¬ 
stinct to know what customers want. 
The farm trade will be mostly in some 
form of food, and the woman knows far 
better than the men what housewives 
want. If a farmer is wise he will turn 
the business of selling food direct over 
to the women folks and give thorn a fair 
share of the proceeds. Several men have 
already ruined a good direct business by 
trying to treat their mail customers as 
they would a neighbor in a horse or cow 
trade. No greater mistake could be made. 
The direct trade customer in town will 
not leave the grocer or butcher unless he 
knows he can get high quality food for 
less than he now pays. Think for a mo¬ 
ment and you will see there is no rea¬ 
son why he should. The best policy is 
not to see how much you can beat him, 
but how much quality and good measure 
you can crowd into his package. Of 
course a sensible farmer will take it as 
a compliment when it is said that his 
wife and daughter or mother are better 
qualified to handle and sell food than he 
is. 
Here are some of the things which 
women have sold to good advantage 
through parcel post. Maple sugar, sau¬ 
sage and small cuts of pork, lard, dressed 
poultry, dried fruit, canned goods, ap¬ 
ples, mincemeat, nuts and many others. 
Sending eggs by parcel post has not yet 
proved very successful. When you get a 
package which carries the eggs safely it 
usually costs too much, with the post¬ 
age to pay. We would not advise a mail 
egg trade yet. Some gardeners have done 
very well mailing lettuce and celery, but 
potatoes and common vegetables are too 
heavy and bulky to pay for mail ship¬ 
ment. A few people are mailing fancy 
apples by the dozen or peck with fair 
profit, but this will pay only in high-class 
markets. Probably the best articles with 
which to start a farm trade of this sort 
are maple sugar, nuts and dressed poul¬ 
try. At Thanksgiving tons of fat turkeys 
were mailed in this way and they gave 
good satisfaction. It will pay to begin 
with to buy some of the ready-made pack¬ 
ages for shipping. Appearance counts for 
much in this trade. Some of the pack¬ 
ages in use are shown here. 
There is no better way to start than 
by putting a small advertisement in some 
good paper printed in the large city near¬ 
est you. The local town may provide 
some trade, but cities of 20,000 or more 
will be better. Either write the editor of 
this paper what you have to sell and let 
him announce it or use an advertisement 
like this: 
Countiii Produce By Mail .—We mail 
farm raised food promptly and at fair 
prices. Dressed Chicken a Specialty. 
Let us mail your Sunday dinner. Write 
for list of produce. Mrs. Mary II. Mor¬ 
ton, - -. 
On some articles you can make definite 
prices but such figures change and it will 
probably pay you best to make prices 
by letter. Look around first and see what 
the farm will furnish. Quite likely sev¬ 
eral women can combine to do this trade. 
They will be more likely to cooperate 
fairly than the men do. The church and 
social neighborhood functions show that 
women can work together far more suc¬ 
cessfully than the men. It will pay to 
have a little card printed—a neat list 
of just the farm produce you can sell and 
mail that to customers. One sale will 
lead to another. There will be consid¬ 
erable correspondence, and here the older 
children can help. This letter writing 
with outsiders will broaden out life, give 
new thoughts and a feeling of pleasant 
responsibility as the trade develops, as 
it surely will if you keep at it patiently. 
New crops will be suggested as the busi¬ 
ness expands, and the life will take on a 
new aspect as the farm slowly comes to 
be a definite and positive part of the 
business world. 
Reflections of a Ruralist. 
Carpet Beating. —Recently I heard a 
bit of experience that is worth retelling. 
A woman, out of the kindness of her 
heart, went to help another woman clean 
house. She was beating a carpet when 
the two husbands appeared on the scene. 
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One of them, rather than see his wife 
beating carpet, did it himself. The other, 
the owner of the carpet, stood calmly by 
and saw it done. “That lets us out,” 
was the terse comment of the two beat¬ 
ers. The social atmosphere about these 
two families is chilly, if not frigid. What 
was the real cause of this sudden drop in 
temperature? Knowing the history of 
all the parties it was not far to seek. 
The man who beat the carpet had shifted 
for himself from an early age; the other, 
an only son and, by the death of an in¬ 
fant sister, the only remaining child of 
a doting mother who spared herself no 
effort in waiting upon him. We are told 
“The good men do lives after them in 
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minds made better by their presence.” 
What about the evil that is done? This 
woman's folly, to give it no harsher name, 
lives after her. Rightly trained to habits 
of industry her son might be beating his 
own rugs instead of being a social ice¬ 
berg. or more bluntly speaking a social 
menace, for that is what improperly 
trained children are, and they are legion. 
W inter. —“I wish I could jump the 
Winter and it was June,” said someone 
to me recently. “I don’t,” I said stoutly. 
“In June canning begins and lasts 
through July and August, September and 
October, and it’s lucky you are if you 
get through then. Some may agree with 
the poet that with November the mehin- 
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choly days are come, but not me. Catch 
me being melancholy when the canning 
is done.” When the leaves are on the 
trees the view from our windows is shut 
off. When the branches are bare I al¬ 
ways feel as if the world was larger, a 
feeling accompanied by an exhilarating 
sense of freedom. The landscape isn't 
the only thing that is seen clearer when 
the leaves are off. Summer duties are as 
the leaves on the tree; no view beyond 
them. So during the season of bare 
branches I shall view the canning land¬ 
scape o’er. 
Canning Economy. —I study the mat¬ 
ter of household expenses pretty thor¬ 
oughly. I see fruit and vegetables go to 
waste which if canned would reduce the 
expense account if I have no reserves of 
time or strength that I can call out to 
do duty in this field. Casting a retro¬ 
spective eye over last Summer’s opera¬ 
tions I conclude to do away with a great 
array of jelly glasses and provide large 
containers for holding unsweetened fruit 
and fruit juices to be finished as needed. 
A fruit press and jelly bag holder I must 
have, also a cherry pitter and larger and 
more convenient vessels for cooking and 
more cans of the kind that are easiest to 
fill and seal. I like tin cans for some 
purposes. When living in the Far West 
I used them extensively, but none of the 
dealers I trade with here carry them. I 
have heard that tin cans with the cover 
that press in can be used for canning. 
As I have some I shall experiment. 
The A’egetable. —Being the gardener, 
I must plan a general campaign. I didn’t 
have any grapes for grape juice this year. 
The sparrows ate them, so the sparrow is 
to be warred against. Last Spring I read 
in one of the farm papers how to poison 
them. Not thinking I would need it I 
didn’t take note of it for reference, so 
now I shall have to search through the 
files. Not altogether lost time, for I usu¬ 
ally find more than I look for. I have 
sent to the Department of Agriculture 
for the bulletin “The Sparrow as a Pest,” 
so there really ought to be something do¬ 
ing. Cauliflower for pickles is in great 
demand and in scant supply hereabouts. 
I raised some this year for the first time. 
The early was fine but the late an utter 
failure on account of drought. As cauli¬ 
flower needs moisture and we have Sum¬ 
mer drought for common. I'll profit by ex¬ 
perience and put up some of the early next 
time. Celery is recommended as a part 
of the diet of persons suffering from 
rheumatism. I have never attempted to 
raise it, thinking it beyond my capabili¬ 
ties. I shall think again. I like celery 
cooked. I never heard of its being can¬ 
ned, but why not? I sent that query to 
the Department of Agriculture canning 
experts. I now submit it to those of 
The R. N.-Y. 
Sugar. —It amazes me that so many 
housewives buy sugar in five-pound sacks. 
Such are at present selling locally at six 
cents the pound. I have just ordered a 
quantity that will cost me three and one- 
third cents and will be in one large sack. 
I know women who buy the five-pound 
sacks who would feel they could not af¬ 
ford to buy the utensils I shall add to 
my canning outfit. Some people are 
poor because they keep a pack of super¬ 
fluous dogs, and some are poor because 
they help to keep superfluous merchants. 
J. L. C. 
Considerate Little Girl: “Please 
Mr. Keeper, will it hurt the elephant if I 
give him a currant out of my bun?”— 
Woman’s Journal. 
“Don’t you want good roads?” “Oh, 
I dunno,” replied the man who was whit¬ 
tling a pine stick. “There ain’t no place 
around here that’s worth goin’ to.”— 
Washington Star. 
One day a number of children were 
talking over the difficulty Adam must 
have had in finding names for all the 
animals. The littlest girl did not speak 
for some time, then she said: “Except the 
hog. Anybody would know what to call 
that!”—Woman’s Journal. 
Speaking of dry weather the other 
day, some one asked an old farmer out 
in an arid Western State: “How would 
you like to see it rain, Iliram?” “Don't 
care anything about it myself,” he ans¬ 
wered, "but I’ve got a boy six years old 
that would like to see it rain.”—Every¬ 
body’s. 
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