1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
113 
Pin Money on the Farm. 
For the sake of some few wise farm¬ 
ers* wives, who would not rather see 
their daughters dead than be a farmer’s 
wife,” it is well that any ideas which 
tend towards encouragement for the 
farmer’s daughter be suggested and dis¬ 
cussed. Much care and thought is re¬ 
quired nowadays to keep the young folks 
on the farm. Money lavished upon 
them, that they might not feel the rough 
part, may help, but I am inclined to 
think that the poor farmer with his 
need of help stands the better chance. 
Surely, it is such daughters as think and 
do, that they may be of service to 
lighten the burden on the dear old 
shoulders, who will make the choicest 
farmers’ wives of to-morrow. Work 
for restless young hands and minds, use¬ 
ful, moderate work, is the remedy for 
more than one trouble that perplexes 
the father and the mother. Yet it is 
quite necessary that the work be inter¬ 
esting, and if interesting and useful, it 
is usually profitable. The daughter on 
the farm has so many ways in which 
to make herself skillful. Bee-keeping 
and poultry-keeping are ideal work, but 
I will write only of little things that 1 
have seen once idle hands do. 
A mother of a daughter of fourteen 
was distressed at the restlessness of the 
girl and her lack of interest in simple 
housework. She did not try to do her 
best in anything. Finally the mother hit 
upon the plan of encouraging the child 
to do her best in several lines and take 
the results to the State fair. She won 
first premiums on nearly all of her ex¬ 
hibits, of fruit, jelly, rolls, and several 
articles in the needlework department. 
Of course, the child is now on the safe 
road, and the enthusiasm she won will 
make her tasks easy. In another family, 
one daughter did not have good health 
unless she spent most of her time out of 
doors. An older sister assisted the moth¬ 
er, so this girl worked among her flow¬ 
ers and what delightful work it was! She 
has made it profitable for her, and is in¬ 
creasing the number of sash and the size 
of her garden yearly. Early in the Fall, 
she plants pansy seed for Spring flower¬ 
ing. They are transplanted as soon as of 
proper size and protected during the 
Winter. When just in blossom, each 
plant is placed in a tiny pot and sold on 
the market. In the Spring her sash are 
devoted mostly to Asters, of which she 
makes successive sowings. When trans¬ 
planting, a dozen tiny plants are tied in 
a bundle, marked as to color and name 
and sold at five cents per dozen. Or, she 
allows them to grow, after transplanting, 
until several inches high and sells them 
for five cents each. All the old-fashioned 
flowers find places in her garden. When 
young, she sells them as seedlings, and 
afterward the blossoms are sold. It is 
surprising how the rich like these old- 
fashioned flowers. Dahlias and Gladioli 
she finds profitable, both as to bulbs and 
flowers. 
A second girl has an increasing trade 
in vegetable plants. This, of course, re¬ 
quires hotbed sash, and while not such 
delightful work as is work among flow¬ 
ers, is very interesting, and has an ad¬ 
vantage over the former, in that it is 
seldom necessary to leave home for a 
market. The girl of whom I write 
raises egg-plant, cabbage, sweet potato, 
tomato and pepper-plants. Her sash are 
placed, five in a group, in a continuous 
line. When she is through with the 
Summer plants, the end boards in each 
group are removed, then a horse and 
plow work them up. This is so much 
easier than spading up the earth. After 
she prepares the soil for sowing, she 
sows cabbage seed for plants to winter 
over, and radish seed in successive 
planting, so there is very little time dur¬ 
ing the year that the sash are not yield¬ 
ing some return to the plucky little 
worker. She does all of the sowing, 
transplanting, watering and selling, and 
has a great deal of spare time. A young 
woman, whose help is required in the 
house, makes her pin-money in the near¬ 
by town by selling to the busy and to 
the rich, little delicacies in which she 
surpasses. She, on certain days each 
week, delivers (by order now), delicious 
salads, pickles, ketchup, cookies, pies, 
canned fruit and jellies. She also gath¬ 
ers nuts and finds sale for them, and her 
herb-bed is a paying spot. Speaking of 
canned fruit, I know, because I have seen 
it done, that a farmer's daughter can easily 
sell several hundreds of jars of canned 
fruit and vegetables, by having samples 
and soliciting her orders. Any idea that 
may encourage our young women to like 
the country and the work of the country 
woman is worth passing on, for it is the 
woman as often as the man who makes 
the farm a success, for a good woman’s 
cheer puts new life into the man’s work. 
LOUISE S. JOHNSON. 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letters, 
I have had quite an experience with 
my poultry and decided that there are 
many ups and downs in this career as 
well as any other. I cannot blame any¬ 
thing but a broken window with a sud¬ 
den drop of temperature, and realized 
how true it was that “For want of a 
nail the shoe was lost.” But though the 
new woman may understand all trades I 
was brought up to think my work was 
the house, and never learned manual 
training, which should teach girls how 
to replace a broken pane. At any rate 
going out one morning to give them 
breakfast, I found 10 hens suffering 
from colds, and two of them developed 
all symptoms of roup. So I separated 
the afflicted ones from the healthy fowls 
and gave them some linseed to pick, 
while I made a mixture of ground grain 
and pepper for them. Three of them 
died, but the rest soon recovered, and I 
had the house disinfected, keeping the 
sick fowls isolated for awhile. Then as 
the weather turned milder they were 
shut into the yard while I sprayed the 
inside of the building with Bordeaux 
Mixture, that being the quickest way 
of whitewashing at this season of the 
year. Hens are a good deal like people, 
very susceptible to changes of tempera¬ 
ture, and quite liable to spread their 
“grippe” or roup to others. 
Talking of diseases reminds me of one 
of my failures last Fall, which was in 
keeping over the tomatoes that were not 
ripe before frost. The boys helped me 
gather them one Saturday, and we put 
them in the spent hotbed under the 
sashes. There were so many I carried 
some to the warm loft over the kitchen, 
but they rotted completely, while those in 
the hotbeds looked fine, and I was in 
hopes that they would bring me some 
pocket money, but when we went to 
pick them over there was a bad spot on 
nearly every one of them, and the only 
use we could make of them was to use 
the sound parts for chilli sauce. Some 
people say it is best to pull them up by 
the roots and hang them in the dark 
barn, but I should like to know the ex¬ 
perience of some of the readers of The 
R. N.-Y. on the subject. 
As Christmas came near I began to 
wonder what I should do for presents, 
for I was too busy to make any fancy 
articles as gifts. I had a lot of Chinese 
primroses in pots, that were raised from 
seed, and got some moss from the woods 
to put on top of the pots, giving to those 
of my friends who have none, and sev¬ 
eral neighbors who had sickness in the 
house and had no time for pickle making 
were glad of a bottle of gherkins. We 
had a large supply of these little cucum¬ 
bers, and I found they were in good 
demand at the stores. 
I told Elizabeth Veery recently that 
one of our Northern dishes, very nice 
at this season of the year, was codfish 
done by an old-fashioned recipe to serve 
as a supper or breakfast dish. Soak a 
piece of salt codfish about six inched 
square in soft water over night. Split 
six crackers and lay them in enough 
cold water to cover them for the same 
length of time. In the morning pick 
the fish fine, and mix well with the 
soaked crackers, three beaten eggs, a 
bit of butter the size of an egg, with 
salt and pepper to taste. Mix a quart 
of milk with one dessert spoonful of 
flour and boil five minutes, then pour 
over the dish of crackers and fish and 
bake for half an hour. Elizabeth prom¬ 
ised to try this and said it looked as if 
it might be an improvement on codfish 
balls by way of variety. 
CHARITY SWEETHEART. 
If I were forced to be a boy, and a 
boy in the country—the best kind of boy 
to be in the Summer—I would be about 
ten years of age. As soon as I got older, 
I would quit it. The trouble with a boy 
is that just as he begins to enjoy him¬ 
self he is too old, and has to be set to 
doing something else. If a country boy 
were wise he would stay at just that age 
when he could enjoy himself most and 
have the least expected of him in the 
way of work.—Charles Dudley Warner. 
A gentleman is blit a gentle man— 
no more, no less; a diamond polished 
that was a diamond in the rough; a gen¬ 
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a gentleman is slow to surmise evil, as 
being one that never thinks it; a gentle¬ 
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right; a gentleman subjects his appe¬ 
tites; a gentleman refines his tastes; a 
gentleman subdues his feelings; a gen¬ 
tleman controls his speech, and finally 
a gentleman deems every other better 
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