The San Francisco call., 1904-11-03
WOMEN ASSIST
STATES CAUSE
Three Lady Ranchers From
the Sacramento Valley
Help at the Worlds Fair
ARE LIVING ARGUMENTS
Mrs. Kennedy, Mrs. Bailey
and Mrs. Hoppin Success
full Farmers of California
ARE LIVING ARGUMENTS
BY PAUL EDWARDS.

CALL BUREAU, PRESS BUILDING,
WORLDS FAIR, ST. LOUIS, Nov. g.
The Sacramento Valley Development
I Association evidently believes that the
era for the demonstration of woman's
usefulness in the fields usually occupied
by men is here. 1t has shown it's con-
fidence in the ability of the fair sex as
promoters by sending three lady COM
missiOnerS here to assist Commissioner
Wills in the work of exploiting the re-
sources of the Sacramento Valley and
inducing emigration to that section.
Two of these ladies have been here
since the fair opened They are Mrs.
Elizabeth Kennedy of Butte County
and Mrs Rose A. Baney of Sacramento.
Mrs Emily Hoppin OF Yolo County is
the third. She has just arrived, but
has plunged into the work with vim
and is keeping abreast of her two more
experienced sisters in the promotion
business.
The Sacramento Valley holds a
unique position at the fair because of
it's three lady commissioners. In hust-
ling they keep the men at the exhibit
jumping to keep UP.
Two of the ladies are widows and
landowners, who farm their own lands
and look after their own business af-
fairs. The third has a husband. but
she also has a business head of her own
and farms many acres of leased land :
! This attaches additional Importance to
| them. 1t also serves as one of the big
gest advertisements for the valley, as
, showing what women can do there for
| themselves. The Sacramento Valley +
not only gets excellent work out of its
lady commissioners, but it has in their
experiences a demonstration of the ex- I
cellence of it's agricultural conditions
PEAR TOO BIG FOR JURY.
Mrs. Kennedy is known as ''practi- /
cal rancher." She is large landowner !
and grows fruit that has some size to
it, When the horticultural jury was |
floating about looking for good things /
1t esDied a quart jar of pears she had /
placed in the exhibit made by Yolo-
Very fine" said the jury, after 1T |
had sampled.
What do you think of this variety?"
asked Mrs. Kennedy, taking down an
other jar.
ALSO good, but doesn't carry as much !
sugar as the other, said the jury, and
they all nodded their heads in wise ap
proval of each other as they smacked /
their lips.
"And this?" and a third jar of the
same size was taken down by Mrs. /
Kennedy.
"a fine pear, but grown in a some
what different soil and given less water
in the month of September than the |
Kennedy to gasp at this wonderful ex-
hibition of pear knowledge.
That's all one pear, gentlemen" said /
Mrs Kennedy, with meekness that
showed she was not remembering the
wisdom of the jury. 'It took three jars I
to hold It," This was a fact, too.
How many women in America grow |
pears one of which will fill three quart |
Jars? None outside California.
Mrs. Hoppin has ranch of $50 acres |
in Yolo County that knows only her |
own superintendency and that $50 acres
makes as much money each year as
any similar area about it farmed by /
man. Mrs. Hoppin is known as an
authority on alfalfa and dairying and |
the results she has obtained ought to
be enough to bring every Eastern |
farmer to her locality.
These two ladies are the widows Of |
the trio. Commissioner Wills is try /
ing to get this fact as generally known |
in st. Louis as possible, for he wants /
to attract all the unmarried farmers |
possible to the Sacramento display.
PRIZE WINNING CAKE.
Mrs. Bailey, besides owning a ranch,
leases land and raises profitable crops |
on it, A wonderful "cake" made by /
her of fruits grown on her own place
has taken a gold medal and Mrs. |
Bailey is proud of II. She has become !
famous in the California colony here |
because of winning a special medal /
through a unique and original idea /
There are forty-one varieties of fruit |
in this cake" It is two feet in di- /
ameter and a, foot thick. 1t is really |
not a cake, but Is composed only Of |
dried fruits sugared together. Several
gold medals have been taken by prod /
ucts in the Sacramento Valley exhibit,
but there is none that will arouse |
more pride than the one to be sus-
pended from Mrs. Bailey's cake of |
fruits. In addition to taking a first !
prize, the cake" will be accorded the /
honor of having its photograph put in !
the official book of the fair.
Mrs Bailey has on exhibition some |
cotton grown from seed she obtained /
from Georgia last April.