Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-05
THE COUNTY BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
officers Elected and Interesting Papers
Read

officers Elected and Interesting Papers
Read.
At PA Monday afternoon, President A.
w. Borton called the annual meeting Of
the farmers organization of this county te
order in Patrons Hall, Mullica Hill, at
what proved to be one of its most inter
esting, as it was the largest attended session
in the history of the Board, the attendance
being one hundred and twenty, ffty-one Of
whom were ladies-Wives or daughters Of
the lords of the farm
The minutes read and approved, the
meeting instructed the President to appoint
a nominating committee of five, and these
weresnamed: A. B. Somers, ID. B. Kille,
John Tonkin, G. w. F. Gaunt and VIM.
Dawson.
Treasurer VIM. II. Borden submitted the
annual report showing receipts, with a
balance at last meeting, .39, expendi-
lures, $17.55. Balance, $26.84.
Asa Moore then read a memorial to the
late Amos Gardiner, one of the founders
of the County Board of Agriculture, which
was ordered spread an page OF the min
utes.
Gin what ways did the tests and COM
parsons in the Pan-American Model Dairy
benefit dairymen throughout the country"
was the first topic discussed. In the absense
of Joseph T. Carter, one of the persons to
whom the topic was referred for discussion,
Asa Moore read his observations. The
question of most importance to the practi-
cal dairyman in connection with the tests
at Buffalo is what kind of COWS will give
the highest rate per cent. of net profit on
the total value of all the feed which they
| dnrin tho xUhn1n To q
practical dairyman COW is a machine for
converting COW feed into cash, cheap raw
material into manufactured article of
greater value and reader sale. The dairy
man wants the machine which will give the
greatest per cent. of net profit on the raw
material used. The test certainly demon
strated that there is no one breed contain
ing all the best COWS. The dairyman must
be guided by his surroundings amount of
| feed produced on his farm and what he pur
poses to do with his product. For milk
production, where the fat is not the main
factor and feed is abundant, the Holstein or
Ayrshire would seem to be desirable, but
for butter the Guernsey or Jersey would be
| the COW.
By request Mrs Asa Moore very enter
taingly read an article in the late Rural
NeD Yorker on that subject. At the date
of the article the Guernseys were in the
| lead in the butter tests, with the Holsteins
in high place. The conclusions of the
article were that for the American farmer
small or medium sized cattle are to be
preferred.
At this point the Nominating Committed
report was presented by Secretary Gaunt,
as follows
President, John Tonkin; Vice President,
Joseph T. Carter; Secretary, Asa E.
Gardner; Treasurer, VIM. H. Borden.
| Executive Committee-Wesley B. Gill,
Esther Rulon, George Horner, Belle Kirby,
| l.. M. Shoch.
Delegate to State Board-Theo. Brown.
Delegate to the State horticultural So
ciety-Wm. Gleason.
The unanimous vote of the meeting for
their election was cast by the Secretary.
''THE FUTURE WOMAN"
The ladies selected to discuss this topic
evidently realized its Importance to the
| future man, and bestowed on it their best
thoughts, which follow.
Mrs. Mary R. Browns paper follows
| Longfellow has said: Crust no future,
howeer pleasant" and when we touch on
this subject of the future woman, we feel
we are indeed treading on unstable ground.
For however bright the sun may shine upon
this ground, however profusely it may be
strewn with flowers, we know not what
quaking boys or treacherous quicksands
Turk beneath it.
| Dealing in futures is an uncertain bust
ness, and many financial wreck has been
the outcome of future promises, so we dare
not certify what the coming woman may
be, we can only predict by taking a retro
spect of the past, and see what she has
accomplished, and judge what, in the
natural course of events, what development
and progress will shape her future.
In ye olden times, when chivalry held its
sway over mankind, and the spirit OF
knighthood touched a responding chord in
every manly heart, when poetry and music
and art responded to the higher feelings
and catered to the tastes and the prevailing
sentiment of the times, woman was held
as a sort of celestial being, too frail for the
common everyday affairs, and surrounded
with that halo of sentiment not in touch
with the practical concerns of life.
| When we read of King Arthur and his
gallant knights, sworn to revere, protect
and defend women when we see her set
upon pedestal and worshipped, as it were,
| from afar off-an ornament a toy-tOo
| fragile for the roughness of this mundane
sphere-we might have a sense of regret
that We olden times are not with US again.
But we women of to-day, with our
practical education and our superior adj
vantages, have learned to diseredit the old
traditions of King Arthur and Round
Table, and to believe that the women of
those ancient times were not altogether en-
chanting beings, the poets and artists would
have us believe they were. We have an idea
the sentiment of love was more expressed in
poetry and art than was lived out in the
daily existence. We believe that while the
spirit of the times was to etherealize her,
to beautify her, and treat in sentiment as
an angelic being, woman's true position was
far from being an enviable one. What
with the ignorance and the superstition of
the times, her true position was not the
digniied and exalted one it is for her to-
day.
While sentiment elevated her, the gross
sensualities of the time enslaved and de-
meaned her.
| We doubt if ever before in the history of
the world woman occupied as Independent
position as she does to-day in this grand
United States of ours, and her future will
| be much as she chooses to make it. Doors
have opened to her in unexpected places.
Privileges have been granted her of which
her grandmother dared not dream, and
there are still others awaiting her.
Side by side she has educational advan-
tages with her brother. The universities,
the colleges, the theological seminaries and
the schools of law have one by one broken
down their barrier of conservatism and she
walks in and out without comment, and WE
hope the future woman will not forget to
appreciate the difficulties her sisters Of the
past have undergone in their efforts to Sc
cure this equality Of privilege. And doe;
all this conduce to her happiness and we'll
being? We feel indeed that it must. Edu
cation certainly gives one broader things to
think about Unjust be source Of happiness
to any woman to know she is preparing her
self to take position in the world for hel
own self support should circumstances evel
require tiff they do not require, we are
always sorry to see some worthy ont
crowded out by woman who already has
the comforts Of life, and many of its lux
uries.
In years past no other source of employ
ment was open to women but kitchen o.
sewing work, and many young girl spen
life of thankless drudgery in the home o
some relative, because it wasn't considered
genteel to take up work outside of thu
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