The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-11-27
The Farmers Institute at Dufur Held
on tho gath and 25th inst.

on the %4th and 25th inst.
The first evening session found about
two hundred persons present. 1t was
opened by song from the choir after
which Hon. H. III. Dufur read very
admirable and able paper on sour
agricultural interests as connected with
political economy" Mr.. Dufur claimed
that the United States owes her great
ness to agriculture; yet while the farmer
has toiled to increase his own and the
nations wealth spectators have eaten
up his substance. The farmer has grown
lean while the nation has grown fat.
The agriculturists are the most conser-
vative of all classes yet they are, more
than any others, dissatisfied with the
present condition of affairs. The fault
is largely their own and is due mainly
to personal reckless expenditure. The
farmer has not Accommodated himself to
surrounding circumstances and altered
conditions. The farm must be conducted
so that the balance of trade will be in
its favor. The leaks on the farm must
stop. Brains must be used as well as
muscle. Farmers to be prosperous must
get down to cash basis. We need re-
form Oh the farm as well as in the state
or nation. Agriculture should be fos-
tered by the state and nation. With the
most magnificent agricultural country in
the world VIC should know nothing of
bread and labor riots. Statesmen should
look more to the prevention of crime
than to methods of punishment. The
country needs more practical states
manship-less talk about states rights
and more about state developmant-
instead of a department of war we want
department of peace. 1t is impossible
to do justice.to Mr.. Dufur's paper with
out publishing it in extenso, which we
hope to do in the near future. After
duet by the Misses Dufur and Heisler,
Mrs. N. Garfield read an ably written
paper on 'Women's Sphere,'' in which
she took strong radical ground for
women's rights; ridiculed the Hebrew
tradition" about women being created
from a mans rib and scored Paul for
having taught that women should occupy
a place subordinate to man, claiming
that his teaching was reflection of the
times that produced Tiberius and
Nero. The church had been teaching |
that women should pray and men vote;
Mrs. Garfield proposed to turn the |
tables and have the men pray while the
women did the voting. She claimed
that women's sphere has neither begin
ming nor end; it is boundless as the
ocean. Having paid glowing tribute
to the gray haired founders of the re-
public who had inaugurated reform in
human government, she prophesied a
coming reform with reference to women's
place in society as great as that which
took place at the commencement of the
Christian era and closed with highly
complimentary reference to the uniyer
slty gift of Senator Stanford by which
the future mothers of the nation were
placed on an educational equality with
men SO that they may be fully qualified
ior their high calling and destiny.
This was followed by paper by Miss
Smell, entitled 'sThe depart-
nent of household science at the agri-
college, This paper was
al gely devoted to an explanation of the
methods of training of young women,
adopted at the college. The door of the
college was open to all the cost of yearly
and tuition need not exceed
Sl5O. Every branch of knowledge calcu-
ated to fit the young woman for her
uture lot in life as an accom- plished
farmsr's wife, was taught. They were
instructed theoretically and practically
N cooking, sewing, canning, tending the
sick, marketing and other household
1uties and requirements while lessons
we're also given in horticulture, horicul-
'ure, kitchen gardening as well as in
and dressmaking.
This was followed by an excellent
paper by,Mrs. G. w. Johnston on ssThe
cultivation and management of flowers.
N which many important practical sug-
sestions were offered.
After the reading of an amusing paper
oy State Lecturer Holder in which the
college bred agriculturist was sadly
'cored, the question box was opened and
he following questions discussed
Should there be bounty on cayote
'calps?; When is cream ripe2; Is there
my truth in the theory of planting corn
md potatoes in the light of the moon?
This discussion was entered into with
'uch zest and good humor that it gave
'ne the impression that it was the most
enjoyable exercise of very enjoyable
lay and as the clock now indicated nearly
'en the proceedings of the first day of the
Farmers Institute We're brought to a
,lose by song from the choir.