Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-03
FARMING FoR woMEN.

In her paper on the above subject, prom
ised our readers for this week. Mrs. Adj
dingtou of Henrietta, Tex, says the obiec-
ton to woman's farming usually pre-
scented is that she lacks strength. Mrs.
Addington thinks lack of strength cuts by
no means SC important figure in the cas- e
as lack of executive ability. OF course
strength is worth a great deal. but exec
utivc ability is worth more Take on E.
armed man, give him brain and energy and
he will manage a farm uccessfully-this
fact has been well established. She is
ready to acknowledge that man is superior
to woman physically and, it may be, men
tally; still woman of executive ability can
win health and independence on farm,
even though she should not be physically
powerful. She continues:
1t is not necessary that the woman should
perform the heaviest manual labor-let her
hire Drawn and muscle. If you buy, sell,
plan and superintend in a correct manner,
you will have no time for engaging in the
lOwer-grade work Yet I can see no reason
why a woman should not ride d sulkey-
plow, corn-ister or any other light farm
machine I have seen countess drive her
mailed phaeton up and down Regent street,
London, on a two-hours' shopping tour;
even through the O'Clock crush in Hyde
park, have seen her go with speed and
accuracy. have seen a four-in-hand Tai
lyhO coach go dashiug along the boulevards
of Chicago, while mere chit Of a girl in 4
white lace gowr, No. InousQuetare gloves
and cobweb veil over her starry eyes,
handled the ribbons; but were woman to
ride plow turning furrow for the grains
that feed US all, society would elevate its
nose and exclaim, 'unwomanly."
Ii l had my own bread TO win l would go
straight to the fields and there make it.
Why uotl We're possessed of sufficient
capital would buy thousand-acres Pan
handle farm and steam ploW, and with
these would start a bread factory, or,
rather, an industry the results of which
would make bread, on very large scale.
l believe in small truck patches for
women of limited means. but large farms,
especially on this virgin Texas Land, which
you can buy Ut from 50 to $40 per acre. and
from which you can make from SIS to $50 10
the acre. the first year, are the things to
look after for speedily getting your money
back If you are capitalist you can do
best by operating on a large scale, for in
that case you can use costly machinery
which you could not afford TO use on a small
farm.
| am familiar with several large wheat
farms in our Texas Panhandle country. 1
have known those farms to pay for the
land, fencing and all agricultural expenses
in q single year, To prevent this state
ment from appearing vague, I will make a
special mention. The Knott brothers of
Wichita county sowed 1900 acres to wheat
in 1891, and in the fall of that year
threshed $1,000 bushels of firsu-class wheat
1t was simply what might be termed 4 sod
crop, Gang plows and OK teams were en-
ployed in turning the sod.
valr
make the start Their education has been
VIGOROUSLY deficient so far as relates to
farm matters. even though they may have
been raised on the farm. Then they lack
self-confdence. Don't go into the kitchen
if you are a woman farmer tucking your
head down over few pots and plates and
leaving all outside matters to wooden
headed hired man. Put cheap girl into
the kitchen, get out on the farm and watch
and direct your own affairs.
Nothing was ever well done without ma
tured plans behind it. Study while you are
not out on the farm. Lay your plans care
fully and see that they are carried out.
Make yourself familiar with scientific agri-
culture in all its branches. Read, read,
read. and don't hang back because a thing
may be termed science. Science is sim
ply truth, therefore get at the truth with
out regard to what it may be called. OBJ
serve, inquire and work to wins you have
A woman's strong point on a farm con-
sists ia her small economies, as, for exam
pie, her womanly care of colts, calves,
eggs, butter and so on, through |
an almost unlimited list Then she does |
not attend political conventions and other |
political meetings, neither does she drink |
whisky or smoke or chew tobacco.
Possibly small plat of land for intensive |
farming might be better suited to the ma
iority of women than would be farming on |
a large scale. Her inherited habit seems 1
to be the handling of things on small |
scale. Why not study the science of seed |
and establish a fiEe-acre farm |
with view TO the establishment of new |
and important varieties in agricultural pro- |
ductse Let her start new wheat, a new |
corn, 4 new cotton, new potato. or any |
thing else all her own that would be an i'm |
proyement over the old.
IL work her farm, no matter what the |