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Identifier: americanhomr03newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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e temptation of making a catalogue ofthese brave young women. First of all is the eldest, MissScott—Queenie. She transacts all the business of the farm.attending the markets, and buying and selling the corn andcattle. She is the business-woman of the estate, and the firstword of censure or of fault-finding has yet to be uttered byher sister-associates. At home she assumes special care ofthe pigs, and permits no interference with this branch ofher work. Miss Maggie comes next. She is the dairymaid—and anexpert, if you please, for she treasures more than fifteenprizes and certificates for butter-making and milking at pub-lic competitions—no slight achievement for a young girl notlong in her twenties. And she adds a variety of other accom-plishments to her list, for some of the best hay-ricks in hercountry were built and thatched by herself, and in mainways she has displayed a marked leaning toward mechanicalpursuits. The raising of poultry is another department thatbelongs to her.
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Talcing Hay From a Hay-rickBuilt by the Girl Farmers his sudden death hisdaughters found them-selves confronted withthe problem of earningtheir livelihood. Accus-tomed to farm-life fromearliest childhood theywere familiar with everydetail of farm manage-ment, and their landseemed to offer the bestopportunity for the fu-ture. Feeling that familiar work might be more successful in the end than thatof which they then knew nothing, they bravely set about theirself-chosen task and became farmers in the most literal senseof the word. Were one making a philosophical study of this interestingestate it would be easy to indicate the elements which havemade it successful. First, of course, is long and intimatefamiliarity with the work to be done. Then comes the un-bounded enthusiasm with which each detail of this work wasperformed. The girls brought to their work broad knowl-edge and deep interest, and were delightedly interested ineverything they did. Not to make the present study too pro-found

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