New-York tribune., 1903-03-15
LEARNING TO FARM.
WHERE PRACTICAL DETAILS OF AGR1-
CULTURE ARE TAUGHT

WuulIn'S invasion Of pTlCtlcilly every Lea rI
Intellectual and manual endetvor has Teen
proph.Sied often To cease to he a novelty
But few If any of the prophets of, the greater
~orna1ltlood' have dared to predict that women
would revert TO first principles and turn farm
ers; VT that is what some young women STU
Dents at the School of Practical Agriculture and
Hort, ulture at Poughk-epse, n Y, are cong.
Not only are the young women at this lnstltu-
ton onliI3s thoroughly acquainted with
the theory Of farming are the young men
students 1t the same institution, but, like the
young men. they going into the p.actcah-
ties Of farming.
Leaving their mercantile sisters 10 contract
erarrlIr. lungs in department. stores and Offices,
or to fade away in hospitals, the young women
stud-,-s at the S,-hool Of Practical Agriculture
and Horticulture have turned to the bread
fields and sunlight; to the gnats and sand-burrs
In summer and snowdrfts in winter, IN the
Determination to build UP the country Armed
like the young men with hoes, rakes, shoVels
and agricultural implements of the very latest
design they preparing 10 move on an un-
suspecting world
The school of Practi al Agriculture and Hor-
ucuItur- Luts emphasis the word practical.
and its young women students purpose being
every Tit as practical when they graduate as
the young men.
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education," said an officer OF the school the
other day 1T is theoretical, not practical; now
ye train our students and women alike,
not ,?ly in theory. but in practical work. We
take them out into the fields Our young women
are enthusiastic over the school work. and While
mona CT them purpose taking up farming as
business, many Of them have gone into the neids
and performed actual farm labor for the ex-
perierre it affords. They have done so that
they may be thoroughly acquainted with every
detail of the work on farm
The young women regard their training most
seriously. and in their search for knowledge
sometimes go to the stables for PointS IN the
care Of horses or into the fields to help in
pioughing narrowing and corn husking in sea-
NO indeed. this is joke said one OF the
young women students she fished an irri-
tating bit Of straw out from somewhere under
her collar Il don't know how the other girls
feel about il, but I'm here to learn all there is
to learn about farming Whoa" and the way
she brought the horse she was cleaning back to
bis feet again also brought into sharp outline
such a bunch of muscle in the shapely
would have brought the blush Of shame to the
cheeks Of the girl devotee Of basketball and
other hothouse physical culture systems.
These hairs are insistent," she remarked
as she wiped her mouth with the back OF her
hand Horses at this season OF the year don't
appeal TO me in the least. but then l suppose
the horses are not 10 be blamed. are they. boy?'
and she patts-d 'h.- nose of the animal she was
cleaning.
Oh / .hink il just fun, learning TO farm,
sal1 :lG.othnr young woman. DO you know
think gs lit1l, baby pigs mean. are just the
cl:t,-st. sweetest little things
''Grao,a. Grace. CT goodness sake don't talk
,ft tb.a f,.y,1ir riy,o
farmers to be Pigs, Ugh The nasty things.
sad sh. acted nIch as If She had met a mouse