WOMEN IN POULTRY CULTURE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 184, 18 August 1903, Page 4

WOMEN IN POULTRY CULTURE.

It hps come to pass that among the very bos'i of our poultry farmers are to be found women, young ladies, and gills They are almos 1 ; invariably successful, One reason why they are so is because of their prac' ice of attending to little dct.ils —thtir steadiness in routine work. John \Var,am<iker has eaid that female clerks and helpers in the office acd store are more reliable than milo help; that they are more cartful and observant, more patieot under annoyances and less given to frivolity. And this will be found true when applied to those r.ho cultivate poultry. Women are careful; thty are generally good managers financially; they exhibit moie poeitivc-nffs and determination to succeed. Such virtu's have the elements of success upon their face. I have in mind a large numbfr of poultry women who were in the business twenty years ago, and bave been continuously in it ever since, each succeeding year finding mos!i of them a little farther advanced in tho profession and better off financially. There aro hundreds of you rig women in every considerable city who are eking out a taro living in front of their type-writ! rs t behind counters, sitting at desks, it milliners tables, in ' osh dons' arid many oh rsiveitbnxes, whc.se palo checks and hollow ches's fell all too plainly of their unhealthful, unattraative, laborious, poorly paid callings ; but wbo could put roses on their checks, round out the boscm and quicken the grit, if they could only get out in Nature's dormi tory, hraven's temple of acres, a> d breUhe pure air, drink in the i-U"sbine and strengthen thn iou-c'g in (he gynna'ium of out-donr exerc se found in the prcstcution of egg farming, poultry culturing or poultry fancying, find make more rmney. If money be the consideration they could fiod more of it here. But tha thing is to got nut, and away from brick walls and office duit and polluted air —to got awav is the question, Many of them, alas! think it impossible to do so. Agnin, very msny look upon such occupation as degrading—as beneath the lady. Poor sisters! I pity you for your weakness. Then, too, many of our best poultry writers are women. They bave solved the problem of " How can I make poultry pay " and are living on the fat of the land. S-roe of them have accept: d positions on poultry journals as editors or assistant editors. Over in England, in London, a woman edi's and manages the greitest p p?r in tha world —the best p ying one. When her husband died he lefs her the legacy of an involved poultry press —involved by thous'n sof dollars. She paid off the indebtedness abd is now making thousands cf dollars anrui'ly. A young hdy of my acquaintance left school teaching and poor health to follow the occupation of raising thoroughbred poul'ry and to regain btalth. Sho found tho latter, nnd is now making a bank tcconnt by raising, exhibiting, and sailing fancy fowls and writing to the poultry press Most women i know who were and aro now engaged in raising fowls either tor market cr fancy have been rral ladies, ladies of enviable accomplishments, numbering amongst them classical scholars, musicians of some celebrity, school teachers, wives of prominent men, one the daughter of a millionaire, another tha wifo of a multi-millionaire, ono the wifo of a bunker, one thj daughter of a minister, and so on.— California Cultivator.