Janet: A Stock-Farm Scout

The local train from Grand Central station, bound for Four Corners, a flag station on the Harlem Division of the New York Central, carried a very busy young passenger one Saturd...

There was so much to do, once Janet started in trying to keep fowl and other barn yard stock, that the poor diary was seldom remembered. Now and then, at long intervals, she jot...

“You neglected little diary,” wrote Janet that night before jumping into bed. “I must say a word to you to let you know why I have not written to-day. Those noisy pigs, and the...

Having given the setting hen enough feed to last a week, Janet went to the pig pen. She never leaned heavily on the fence, now, but she shoved the pan of food under the fence wh...

The five girls of Green Hill walked along the country road a ways with the girls from the village, and then returned to the farm. As they turned in at the gate opening to the si...

The girls were aroused from sweet slumbers early the next morning by Rachel’s shrill calls. Each girl instantly fancied that some dire accident must have happened to her especia...

While Janet had been occupied at the chicken yard, Frances had brought home the “Stock Farmer’s Catalogue” that Janet had written for. It had come in the morning’s mail and now...

But the proposed hunt for the cow did not take place the following day as Mrs. James had said it would, because a postcard arrived on the late mail announcing the appearance of...

“We watched a bee-farmer in the country, one summer, and the stories he told of his bees, and the intelligence they manifested, won my admiration of them. I’ve always wanted to...

That evening at supper Janet was unusually quiet and Natalie remarked it. “Well,” said Janet despondently. “I was wondering if one of the scouts would buy out my business. I’m g...

Sunday morning was generally observed with an hour’s more sleep and a leisurely breakfast. Because it was not a work day, there was no sense of hurry to accomplish a task. But t...

After the cow was milked and bedded in the stall for the night, Sam came for Susy. But the little calf acted wobbly in comparison to her nimble jumping and activity of the morni...

Not only stock-raising and garden trucking progressed wonderfully for a few days, but the scouting also showed improvement in Patrol Number Two, after the acquisition of bees, g...

“I declare, Jimmy, if those pigs keep on eating like this I shall have to cut down my own rations to enable me to pay for theirs,” sighed Janet, one morning, as she came from th...