SCHOOLGIRL FARMER

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 124, 29 May 1922, Page 3

SCHOOLGIRL FARMER

There is a high school girl in the town of Amherst, not far from Boston, in the United States, who has become one of the most successful fanners of the neighbourhood. When she was fifteen, Elizabeth Farley thought she would like to keep a cow. Her father lent Ipr £25 to buy one and to put up a' shed. She bought her cow, looked after it, and took the milk round in a little cart, selling it to the neighbours. Soon she was able to buy another, and then her profits began to swell considerably. She put them all by instead of spending them, and bought more and more cows until she had ten. Still she fed them,' milked them, and cleaned out their sheds herself, getting up between 4 and 5 to get done *y the time she had to be'in school. Last year her father bought some good land and farm buildings, and Elizabeth has now twenty Jersey cows, pigs, and chickens, with two liorses for farm work. -AU'this she has built up upon her small beginning by her industry and thoroughness. Her incoipe was over £1000 last year, yet she is still "at school, for she is sensible as well as enterprising, and knows that opportunities thrown away in youth cannot often be recovered. A big girl, sft lOin in height, she means to make dairy farming her career;, certainly she has made a good start.