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Show "Women as Farmers. California boasts of a number of women wom-en fanners who manage large estates, make money and keep healthy and happy. hap-py. The comforts of farm life here are greater than they are in the east, and there is a possibility of gaining more than a mere living. Some of the women wom-en farmers have won more than mere local fame. Mrs. Theodosia Shepherd of Ventura is known in the east as a cultivator of California flower seeds and bulbs. Mrs. Strong is known far and wide as the woman who makes a good income by raising and selling pampas grass. 4 Mrs. E. P. Buckingham of Va-caville Va-caville is an orchardist whose fruit commands the highest price in eastern markets. Another successful agriculturist is Mrs. Georgia McBride. A dozen years ago she was an invalid, a widow, poor, with four boys to bring up. She knew nothing of fruit raising, but with feminine fem-inine recklessness she purchased 38 acres of land near San Jose and set it out as an orchard. Now she is prosperous, healthy and wealthy, as the wage earners earn-ers go, and an enthusiastic advocate of farming for women. San Francisco Correspondent. |