The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-12-12
WOMEN SUCCESSFUL FARMERS.

The number of women in the United States
who are studying agriculture grows larger
every year. Nearly all agricultural depart
ments of Western universities and colleges
admit women on equal terms with men, and
there are number of Eastern institutions
where they are welcomed Secretary Wilson
so far approves OF women as farmers that he
frequently addresses classes in the Columbia
Normal School, Washington, where there are
forty women pupils, and elsewhere. 1t is
Secretary Wilson's hope that agriculture, or
the first principles of the science, will soon
be part of the curriculum in every rural
school, and this will mean that thousands of
women will have to take normal courses in
agricultural science in order to fit themselves
for teachers
In Western schools and colleges of agricul-
ture are many girls who have inherited, or
expect to inherit, large farms, which they
will manage themselves. Others study spe-
cial branches of farming, such as dairying,
smallfruit growing, market gardening, etc.
Women are we'll fitted for these branches and
nave made them profitable in so many parts
of the country that all doubt of the wisdom
of this choice of a profession seems to be
dispelled.
new kind of special farming has recently
engaged the attention of women in the East
ern States. At the fruit and flower shows
given every autumn in New York much in
ing cultivated varieties of chestnuts, pecans-
walnuts etc. Larger tracts of lands in South,
ern New Jersey have been planted with choice
nut trees, the Italian and Japanese giant chest
nut chief among them. One young woman
went into partnership with her brother in
planting 20 acres of land owned by them and
few years later resigned a we'll paying posi-
ton in a New York law Office to attend to the
growing business of their nut farm. She
looks after every detail of the work-the gath
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respondence and will probably one day be-
come the sole owner of the property.
Park SUPPLEMENTARY and County Roads
Baltimore Nescs
In the appointment of Mr. w. w. Crosby as
Superintendent of Parks, the Park Board was
guided solely by the principle of selecting the
man best fitted for the special work required
and there is every reason to believe that he
will fulfill all the expectations of the Board
His work as Baltimore County Roads Engineer
has been of the first quality, and has made
such beginning of progress in the improve
ment of roads in that important county as
could not have been attained under less COM
petent man. Governor Smith, after full in
quiry as to the qualifications required, and the
merits of Mr.. Crosby, made this selection when
the post was first created. The only regret
connected with his appointment as Superin-
tendent of Parks for Baltimore city is that
arising from the loss which Baltimore county
will suffer through his leaving 1t is with
view to the obtaining of such good quality in
officials entrusted with important special duties
that appointment by the Governor has been
advocated in such cases by friends of good
government. Praise and blame alike can then
be thoroughly fixed upon the appointing
power, and it would seem that any Governor
with full sense of responsibility would act
accordingly. 1t is to be hoped that the ap-
pointment of successor to Mr.. Crosby will be
made upon the same principle that dictated
his.