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Show Made Money Baking For Her Neighbors In tho current Issuo of Farm and FIresIdo, three stories aro told of threo farm women who mndo a good living without going to tho city. Ono dealt In antiques; another in cottngo cheese, and a third in baking. Tho woman who Is making money baking tells her ttory In part as follows: " Oh for a loaf of good bread! That remark, mado by a bachelor homesteader home-steader prompted mo to start a home bakery. Wo had very little capital when wo took up our quarter section sec-tion in this Pacific Ntrthwest region and tho fact that my husband was working twelvo hours a day out cf doors while I, with plenty ot tlmo and strength, was not earning u penny pen-ny to help along was a constant worry. wor-ry. Is It any wonder that as soon as I could get that bachelor homesteader's homestead-er's attention I offered to provide him, at modcrato prices, with all the bakery supplies that ho needed? He gladly gave a weekly order for four loaves of bread at ten cents each and for two pies nt twenty-flvo cents apiece, for which ho whs to call on specified days. Tho second tlmu that man enmo for his bread ho brought ordeis from two oi his neighbors, also bachelor settlers, and throng thoc three men tho news that I would do extra baking Bpread llko an endless chain letter. Within a month I had eight customers and was reguarl making three dollars and a half per week. "My next step was to nail to a tree at tho sldo of tho road passing ou shack, a. board stating that I was pre pared to furnish bread, biscuit, cake and pies In modcrato quantities, a forty-eight notice, or tako orders foi weekly supplies In tho bakery line. It was amazing tho way the orders cauio In, not only from the men o tho vicinity who aro their own housekeepers, house-keepers, but from women who aro indifferent in-different bakers or encumbered witr largo families of Bmall children. Before Be-fore many days, orders began to como from peoplo who wanted the things done up so that rural letter carrier, who In sparsely settled districts dis-tricts uses a two horse wagon, could pick them up as be passed our house and leave them at their Homesteads or at tho place where their mail waB customarily deposited. "My charges for bread, cake onu plo arc based on the one hundred po" cent profit system. That Is to say, having estimated tho cost of all materials ma-terials and tho postage cr other transportation trans-portation for ench article, I double its prlco and consider It only fair pay." |
