In the more argrarian days of the United States, wives of farmers made extra money for themselves and their children by selling the extra eggs and butter off the farm. This "egg and butter" money bought the extras and sometimes the essentials that the farm family needed.
This is the article:
The Poultry Queeen of Iowa
Farm and Fireside, 1907
"Mrs. Johnson, of Iowa, was a woman of too much spirit to waste any time in vail repining when she found herself with a husband suddenly incapacitated, and four little children looking to her for their support. She decided that there was money in eggs and chickens, and she set to work to demonstrate some of her theories. Mrs. Johnson took a thermometer and made a record of the temperature at which her laying hen, madame Biddy, kept her eggs. Then she constructed an incubator of her own, using a couple of old wooden boxes. In theis homemade contraption, she put one hundred and sixteen eggs, and kept her lamps burning carefully for three weeks. One hundred and five little chicks later, Mrs. Johnson would go into the chicken business and she would make it pay. She has suceeded so well that she is now known throughout the West as the "Poultry Queen of Iowa."
"In eight years, Mrs. Johnson made a living for the family, paid the help, bought farm machinery, built a new house, barn, double cribs, hog house, poultry house, smoke house, ice house, wash house, and tree brooders, and paid a debt of $14,000 on her mortgaged farm. She says, "I have two sons in college, and old Biddy is footing the bills."
So with this story in mind, I have started this blog to apply the same spirit to the twenty first century. Creativity could be the cure for the problems of so many people out of work. This isn't a get rich quick philosophy. It's a little money here and a little money there and before you know it, you create a steady income without having to get a job. Some ideas will cost a little to get going, some ideas are free or for pennies. Add your ideas too.
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