Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1913 — BOUGHT HOME WITH BERRIES [ARTICLE]

BOUGHT HOME WITH BERRIES

Maine Woman Has Been Picking and Peddling for the Last Twenty'Three Years. Paying for a home by picking wild berries Is the feat performed by Mrs. Seth Davis wf Skowhegan, who for the last 23 years has been engaged in this* industry.', Her major berry Is the raspberry, and she averages about fifteen bushels of these in a year. She picks about eight bushels of the field strawberries in the year and many bushels of wild blackberries. Besides picking these she peddles them out in Showhegan. She now owns a fine larm and she remarked that she had paid for it by picking berries. She not only picks berries, but she assists her husband in many ways about the farm. In the winter time she will take a load of wood with a pair of horses, go to Showhegan and find a market for It, unloading It herself. Mrs. Davis is one of the most frequent patrons of the public library, but she believes that life is worth more to her by outdoor air and work than It could be otherwise.—Lewiston (Me.) Journal.