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Show GIRL MAKES BIG I PROFIT ON FARM Proves Dad's Theory That It Beats Running Off to City BY ETHVVRn M. THIERRY. f AMHERST. Mass.. Feb, 18. Ellra- I h?th Farley, B high school girl of ' 18 has earned her own living for j three years. She owns 21 cows, SO j chickens. 2 horses, 7 wagons and ex- tensive farm equipment. And she op- crates' a tiusiness that had a $4000 I turnover last year I "Xot every high school pupil findi Ij it necessary to file an Income tax report!" said Ell7abeth'B father. Prof. ! George L. Farley, of Massachusetts Agricultural college, "but plenty I could If they tried "There isn't anything phenomenal j in what my daughter has done She I1 i.vn't n farm prodigy. She haa put j into practice what we in the colleg I extension service have been trying- to teach that boys and girls can stav I on the farm and make more mon I than by rushing off to the city." I Sitae Farley has enthusiasm Shu sh h.r work Is fun By turning hor profits back into more stock sho Is I building up hor business. Her father I bought her a cow three years ago. I She paid him hacH nnd kept addlnc j to her herd. She branched out Into I chicken raising nnd Into vegetable I farming. issssssl "Find your market and produce I close to It," Prof. Farley adMses the I bo- or girl who seeks success In I farming. STARTS AT BOTTOM. That's what Ellrabeth did When I she started building up a milk route I sh,. (I'-lUercd hor wares herself, cat- jj rying t milk can. Customers in-creaaad in-creaaad and she got a bicycle Then nho htuled milk and cream and egg.-i in a little express wagon Now hc has a horse-drawn delivery wagon and a sleigh. ' I did all the work mvself." Miss Farley said. 'I hauled hay In a wheelbarrow. Wield a pitchfork7 why, certainly. "Milking cows Is easy. We do !t morning and night. Thirteen of my cows are milking now. The work averages av-erages about 10 minutes for each." Professor Farley says Elisabeth knows a lot reore about the business than he does. He admitted being somewhat panicky tho other day h-causo h-causo his daughter was absent when PAYS OWN EXPENSES. ' My herd Is entirely Jersey cow?," said Miss Farloy. "I started out to breed good stock and I aimed for quality of product. I soil milk fo 14J cents a quart and cream for t5 ci?nts i half-pint Others are coming down, but I'm not. And mv eggs cost more The quality Is worth It, 'We've got a 46-acre farm now. Three years ago we had a bungalow with a email back yard. Part of j th- farm Is In hay. In tho spring I'm going more extensively Into vegetables vege-tables and fruits." Ellzab?th's father says she started her commercial csreer when she be-rr.m be-rr.m raising asters when she was 12. "This is a natural business growth, ' she said "She started In n smill way, made her profits work for jj tier, H W slowly Any boy or girl J could do the same thing It wou'.d j pay parents to give them a start, Elizabeth pays her share of the taxes and Insurance and she hasn't cost me a cent for three years, not even clothes." H TIME FOR DANCES. Miss Farley gets up at 4 30 in tho morning and doesn't get through In the cow-ehed until 7.10 winter evenings. Her hours are longer In the summer. Yet she finds time to keep up her high school work, and to get hor share of dances and en- Next fall she is going to stsrt a four-year course in M A C., studying anlmnl husbandry, orchardry ajid I'ther agricultural subjects. Mean-irhlle Mean-irhlle she Is going to employ an M. A C, graduate a girl to run he:-d.ilr he:-d.ilr buelneei She already has two working for her. H Mis Farley is a tall, strongly-built, healthy -faced girl with brown ayes and red hnlr. She hasn't become a staid business woman, or spoiled by She t i Iks of her exploits which have Just been recognized by 1 h IJnlted States department of ag-rl( ag-rl( ii It n ro in the shape of tho onlv liver medal ever awarded for ' Individual In-dividual accomplishment in establishing establish-ing and maintaining a dalrv herd a.- If shf were discussing school td- |