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Show Kansas Woman Makes Farm Fay " 1 gage, has her farm clear of debt, with the whole 400 acres under cultivation, has a herd of cattle and a bunch of hogs, a number of mlleft cows and a lot of chickens, and Is "sitting pretty." And In addition to all this farm work Mrs. Ford, who was once a school teacher, keeps up her yard Just like It was a city lawn. She has roses and all sorts of flowers, has planted shade trees and ornamental shrubs and trees, and today has probably the best kept and most Inviting farm home In the county. But it didn't look that way when, seven years ago, with her small son, she came to live on the farm, with . Raises Hogs, Hens, Cattle and Wheat and Has Valuable Valu-able Ranch. Hutchinson, Kan. Here's a Kansas woman farmer who is making good with a big farm. Seven years ago Mr. J. E. Ford of Sanford, In this state was suddenly sud-denly left a widow with a 400-acre farm, a seven-year-old boy, a $0,000 mortgage and no experience as a farmer. She got right out In the field, did as much physical work as a man, plowed and she listed. She cut wheat and looked after the threshing. When hogs were up, she raised hogs. When hogs went down, she raised cattle. In between time she milked cows and took care of her 300 thoroughbred chickens. Prefers Farm Work to School. She has paid off the $0,000 mort- no experience and a big debt hanging over her. "Decidedly I would rather work on the farm than teach school" says Mrs. Ford. "I have farmed seven years and I taught school in a city school for four years. I prefer the farming." Made Money on Hogs. Mr. Ford died late In the summer. seven years ago. He had already plowed up the land for wheat, but the seeding bad not been done. Mrs. Ford hired a man and the two of them put In the wheat "But the winds blew the seed out of the ground and we raised nothing," says Mrs. Ford. "In fact, we have never made anything any-thing raising wheat. Once In a while we had a good wheat crop, but not : often. Sometimes one thing happened hap-pened to It; sometimes another." When he wind blew the seed out of the ground, Mrs. Ford turned round and put In mllo maize, and thus made a crop. "I raised hogs four years until the drop in price came, ana then I quit," she says. "I made money on them all except one year, when I broke even." Secret of Her Success. Recently the woman farmer has rented 240 acres of her land and Is now operating but ICO acres herself. She has 100 acres Ii pasturage and 60 acres In kafflr corn. In addition to the cattle, she sells ten gallons of cream every week from her milch cows, for which she gets $8 per week. "I made good money wlih my chickens chick-ens last winter," she snys. "I have 300 White Rocks and 00 laying heus. I have been selling about twenty-four clor.cn eggs a week. "The cattle, hogs and chickens have paid off the mortgage. The wheat has just about paid taxes and Interest. I never coulo have paid that mortgage mort-gage oft by raising wheat alone." "I'm going to raise less wheat In future and more beef cattle, hens and hogs," says Mrs. Ford. "My seven years' experience hns taught me that In those three items Is the secret of farming success." |