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A Box of Garden Greens. 
I X EW people know how attractive a jar 
or box of growing parsley may be 
made. For a gift during the Winter 
season or early Spring, when garden 
greens are scarce, it is doubly so. Cigar 
boxes may be filled with rich earth and 
painted with enamel or covered with 
cedar or birch bark. Sow the soil thick¬ 
ly with seed, soaked for quick germina¬ 
tion, and soon the box will be filled with 
the moss-like leaves of the plant. Pep¬ 
per grass and chives also may be used. 
These boxes need not be used entirely as 
gifts, but could be used as a means of 
earning a little money. Just plain pots 
nf parsely sell for from 15 to 25 cents at 
the florists. Any boy or girl could orna¬ 
ment the boxes, and they surely are right 
attractive and useful. 
New Jersey. m ary e. stowell. 
Raising an Herb Garden. 
M Y plans for the coming year are the 
, direct result of my need for a pro¬ 
fitable outdoor occupation. I am 
going to have an herb garden, a small 
one to begin with, but large enough to 
include many of the old-fashioned sweet¬ 
smelling herbs. I plan to make pot¬ 
pourri and sachets. So far it is only a 
plan, but I have chosen the garden plot, 
had it partly fertilized and now I am 
studying nursery catalogues and am 
working on an original pot-pourri jar 
that might attract attention at gift shops. 
Massachusetts. elsie m. iiuhachek. 
An herb garden for sachet purposes 
should have possibilities if judiciously 
managed. Many plants are available for 
the purpose, and the cultural difficulties 
are not great. A few would require 
shade and moisture, but most of the 
sweet “old-fashioned” varieties could 
readily be grown in the open in ordin¬ 
ary fertile garden loam. The plants of 
this type best adapted for sachet and 
pot-pourri purposes in this country would 
be balm, chamomile, marigold, Xigella 
or black fennel, peppermint, pennyroyal, 
sage, southernwood (Artemisia Abrotan- 
um) Summer and Winter savory, spear¬ 
mint. rosemary, tansy, thyme, valerian, 
woodruff (Asperula odorata) and worm¬ 
wood. Other herbs and plants having 
more pronounced condimental and medi¬ 
cinal uses that would fit well into such 
a garden project are anise, burnet, bor¬ 
age. chervil, coriander, dill, fennel, hore- 
hound, hyssop, lovage, marshmallow, rue 
and tarragon, though the list may be even 
more extended. Catnip would of course 
have a place for pussy’s benefit. Though 
the above selection comprises both an¬ 
nuals and perennials the cultural re¬ 
quirements are not especially varied and 
may easily be compassed by any fair gar¬ 
dener. Possibly of all books Mrs. F. A. 
Bardsvvell's “The Ilerb Garden,” pub¬ 
lished in London in IfFl, and procurable 
by any bookseller, would throw most 
light on the subject. .Some modifications 
of the recommended treatment may be 
necessary on account of our warmer and 
drier Summer climate. Seeds or propo- 
gating material of all the varieties named 
may be had from dealers in this country. 
v. 
A Girl Raises Pigs. 
T IIE North Dakota Experiment Sta¬ 
tion organized a hog cont st. Six 
girls and IS boys, all under IS years old, 
competed. The object was to prove that 
pork can be made in North Dakota at 
a profit. In order to do this such pork 
must be produced in about seven months, 
before e, Id weather comes on. North Da¬ 
kota foods must be used for the purpose. 
Everyone knows that a pig makes most 
rapid gains while he is young. The cost 
of wintering a hog takes most of the 
profit made through the warm weather 
out of him. In this North Dakota con¬ 
test the first prize of $100 was won by 
a girl, Miss Anna Barrett of Larimore. 
The following statement is given showing 
what she did. Second prize was won by 
Paul Kellogg, and the third prize by an¬ 
other girl, Edith M. Penoe; with still an¬ 
other girl, Edith M. Penoe, with still an- 
place. So much for the North Dakota 
girls. One argument against suffrage is 
that girls and women are not capable of 
doing a man’s work. It looks as if the 
coming generation in North Dakota would 
take this theory out on the prairie and 
burn it up. 
“Miss Anna Barrett of Larimore, pro¬ 
duced 3811 pounds of pork from a litter 
of 14 Duroes in 200 days. She sold 
them for 014 cents, which brought her 
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$247.71, while the value of the feed was 
$01.49, which left a return of $156.22 
above the cost of the feed. The average 
daily return above the cost of the feed 
was 75 cents, pretty good returns for 
caring for a litter of pigs. These pigs 
were farrowed April 27. From the 9th 
of May until the 10th of October they 
had the run of a Blue grass pasture. 
In addition, they were fed 21 bushels of 
corn, 14 of barley, 20 of oats, 2 1-3 tons 
of screenings, 114 pounds of bran and 
shorts, 1400 pounds of milk, and. from 
the 1st of November until the closing of 
the contest they followed cattle that were 
on feed. From this amount of feed, the 
14 pigs with an average weight of 272 
pounds were produced and the cost per 
pound was 2 2-5 cents.” 
Puppies that Bring Money. 
E had a large registered Scotch 
collie that was very intelligent and 
trusty with the children. She raised two 
litters of puppies each year, and they 
were always all spoken for at weaning 
time by our friends and their friends. 
One day a year ago the thought came 
to me, “Why not raise puppies to sell?” 
After some correspondence I bought a 
beautiful Scotch collie from an eastern 
kennel. The first litter of puppns. which 
women as the animals are tractable and 
easily cared for. Woman's natural in¬ 
stinct for cleanliness is also in her favor, 
as this is a point, that cannot be ignored 
if a demand for goat’s milk is to be 
created among those not accustomed to 
its use. 
Goats in this country have been con¬ 
sidered too much in the nature of scav¬ 
engers to make their products popular in 
American families, but they are natur¬ 
ally cleanly animals, and need only good, 
wholesome, food and clean quarters, 
combined with such care of the toilet as 
a woman could give, to remove much, if 
not all, of the prejudice that now exists 
against their milk. It must be admitted, 
however, that there is no universal de¬ 
mand for the products of a goat dairy 
and that most people wishing to establish 
one would find it necessary to create this 
demand before their venture could be 
put onto a paying basis. Perhaps the 
best way to do this would be to interest 
the physicians of a community and en¬ 
deavor, through them, to find customers 
who would appreciate goat's milk for 
infant or invalid feeding and be willing 
to pay the higher price which would have 
to be secured for it. In some localities, 
a hospital might be found that would 
take the product of a goat dairy. It 
could not be considered prudent for a 
A BOX OF GARDEN GREENS FOR GIFT OR SALE. 
numbered seven, netted me ju. t $24. 
After giving away puppies, as we had 
been d ing, I was afraid my friends 
would expect me to continue, so I in¬ 
serted an advertisement in the local pa¬ 
per, and I soon found the demand was 
better, if possible, than before. I find it 
nothing but a pleasant task to raise 
these puppies, as every farm needs one, 
and if they have small children, two dogs. 
I have been wondering why more farmers’ 
wives do not take up this novel and in- 
terestitc method of earning money. 
DAY MERRY. 
Women as Goat Breeders. 
HAVE been informed that goat’s milk 
is very helpful in cases of stomach 
trouble, even in adults; also, that the 
care of these animals can be safely un¬ 
dertaken by a woman. If any of your 
readers have had experience in this line 
will they kindly give me the benefit of it, 
through your columns? G. T. 
Goat’s milk has been found very use¬ 
ful in infant feeding because of its di¬ 
gestibility. While richer than cow’s 
milk, the fat globules are much smaller 
and more intimately mixed with the 
milk; so much so, in fact, that the cream 
cannot be separated by any of the or¬ 
dinary processes. The albumen does not 
coagulate into such hard masses as does 
that of cow’s milk and it is. correspond¬ 
ingly, more suited to weak digestions. 
These qualities should make it desirable 
as an invalid food if its slight musk fla¬ 
vor did not render it distasteful to the 
patient. Much of the characteristic fla¬ 
vor of goat’s milk is due. however, to 
lack of cleanliness in handling and in 
care of the animals and may be obviated 
by greater attention to these matters. 
There seems to be no good reason why a 
goat dairy should not be conducted by 
woman, or anyone else, to make any 
considerable investment in milch goats 
without being first assured of a market 
for the milk. One or two may well be 
secured for family use by those who are 
in position to care for them and if a 
business of supplying others with the 
milk can be developed there is no reason 
why it should not be undertaken by a 
woman. m. b. d. 
A Trade in Cottage Cheese. 
EEING D. B. H.’s inquiry in regard 
to cottage cheese tempts me to give 
our experience. The formula for making 
the sour milk into cheese, as printed, is 
all right, being careful to let the curd 
drain dry without any squeezing. Oue 
cup of cream to 10 pounds of curd, if not 
scalded too much, will make the cheese 
moist enough. Do not use any butter, 
as this causes the cheese to turn yellow 
if left exposed to the air even for a 
short time. 
We live three miles from a village of 
1200 inhabitants. We sell all of the cot¬ 
tage cheese we can make from the milk of 
two cows, from the first of December un¬ 
til the first or middle of May. We keep 
the curd made from day to day for a 
week, then add cream and salt to the 
whole mass, working out all lumps, so 
that it is all of one consistency. We 
pack in one pound portions, which are 
placed in a pint paper ice cream pail, 
each pound wrapped in paraffin paper be¬ 
fore placing in the pail. These ice cream 
pails cost $3.50 per thousand and make 
a neat, sanitary package, handy to hand 
out, or for a person to carry if he meets 
you on the street and asks for one. We 
get 10 cents per pound, and the cheese 
brings more money than the butter made 
from same amount of milk. s. T. s. 
Jauu.uy :to. 
Pin-money Puzzles for Women. 
R ABBIT SHOOTING.—The day be¬ 
fore Thanksgiving a young neighbor 
woman came past our house with three 
rabbits which she had shot. These she 
sold for Z0 cents apiece on the spot, with¬ 
out the trouble of dressing them. A few 
days previous she had sold five dressed 
for one dollar. She has shot as many 
as 15 in one week, though she spends 
comparatively little time hunting. This 
woman is very successful with poultry, 
and her husband taught her how to han¬ 
dle a gun for their protection. She has 
brought down many a hawk that no one 
else could get (and got paid for it too) 
and looks after her husband’s traps in 
mornings when he hasn’t time. 
Be Business-Like. —If you are 
“lucky” with turkeys they are the trump 
card in poultry raising. Last year 11 
Bourbon Reds brought me exactly $33. 
It is mighty encouraging to a woman’s 
pocketbook to drive into town with her 
husband and get a big check for a load 
of poultry. One last word about your 
poultry raising; look at it as a business 
and don’t let anything keep you from 
success that you have any control over. 
You can make the coops safe from “var¬ 
mints,” you can control mites and lice 
and keep the coops sanitary by white¬ 
washing, etc. No need for you to te 
afraid of overstocking the market. The 
United States imports millions of dozers 
of eggs yearly. When a woman cannot 
find any other way to make money she 
can start in the poultry business. 
Weaving.— Then there is the business 
of carpet weaving. One frail little wom¬ 
an that I know puts in most of her spare 
time at. certain seasons at her loom. She 
does good work, consequently is much in 
demand. There are not half enough car¬ 
pet weavers. Rag rugs are having their 
day. They are very serviceable and 
sweet-homey looking. Very pretty rugs 
can be crocheted of old stockings, but 
instead of putting them on the floor make 
them lar„e enough to use on the bed; 
they are as good as any comfortable for 
warmth. White knit underwear can be 
dyed to use in these “bed rugs,” and if 
the colors are combined artistically you 
will have a most fetching outside spread. 
A shell border of three or four rows of 
chain stitch put on in small scallops 
makes a nice edging. 
Vegetable Gardening. — Gardening 
can be made to yield a certain income 
throughout the Summer. You have a few 
friends in town who must buy their vege¬ 
tables? How easy to get their trade by 
selling lower than the stores, as you can 
well afford to do. Have a separate bas¬ 
ket for each customer, and every Satur¬ 
day when you go to town with your 
butter and eggs take along your baskets 
of fresh vegetables. Do them up nicely. 
Even if each one takes no more than 25 
cents worth it will pay you. If you have 
only a spark of enterprise you can find 
among your friends and their friends 
enough customers to take all your butter, 
eggs, fruits and vegetables. You must 
make some concessions to these people, 
and you can best do it by giving them 
first-class goods for a slight reduction on 
market prices. 
Indiana. ida m. jackson. 
R. N.-Y.—Shooting rabbits is about 
the last business we should suggest to 
some women we know, yet there are con¬ 
ditions where it would pay. We know 
of women who do a good business at 
raising rats and mice! 
Germany has been largely supplying 
the world with playthings, for the Ger¬ 
man toy-makers are experts. Toy-making 
in that country is an inherited business 
handed down from father to son, and 
some of the German workmen have be¬ 
come remarkably expert. The war. 
however, has upset conditions, and other 
countries have been obliged to a large ex 
tent to make their own toys or go with¬ 
out. The English are trying to develop 
toy manufacturing business and a great 
exhibition of hand-made toys has just 
been held in England. Most of these toys 
are made by villagers or farmers, provid¬ 
ing Winter work for ingenious members 
of the family. Some of the villages in 
Ireland are sending out large quantities 
of these toys. This ought to be a profit- 
abb* work for some of our farm women. 
Certain kinds of toys can be made to 
good advantage on the farm by expert 
fingers. The writer was brought up in 
a community where a number of ingen¬ 
ious women made an excellent income by 
making toys, largely figures of animal 1 ; 
cut out of cloth, and stuffed to give a 
good imitation. There is opportunity i:i 
tliis for some one. 
