The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-02-27
FARM INSTITUTES
Department for Women
Will be Added This
Year.

There is now a Farmers institute
organization in nearly every county II
the state ana institutes have cr VIII
be held in all the counties during 1906
The Farmers institute has become
th0rouphfy establiShcr as one of the
important educational institutions of
this country for the uplifting OF the
masses of the agricultural popuI3-
ton.
The Department Of Agriculture viii
add 4 Momen's department this year.
and in speaking of the work yesterday
state Veterinarian TAFT Butler. Who IS
nag of the Farmers Institute
aid
THE public officials. educators. and
those interested in the public welfare
generally have been slow to appre-
cate the great importance and posi-
bilitics Of this work ana have not given
it that sympathetic help which might
reasonably rave been expected, but
more interest is now being manifested
and the work is sufficiently advanced
to make ii certain that in spite OF dill
culties the Farmers institute is going
to lake its proper place in fostering
agricultudll progress III this state.
III to this time these Institutes
have been attended almost exclusively
by men and little effort has been made
to cater to the tastes and needs Of the
women in the farm homes: but during
the present season an attempt VIII be
made 10 inauGuratc Women'S INST
tutCs. In many States the attempt has
been made To combine programs for
the benefit of the women with regular
Farmer Institute programs, but this
has been found generally ~uuSdtSfac-
tory, and now the tendency Is 10 Or
ganize separate institutes for The Wo-
men in which only such subjects as
come within the sphere Of the home
maker are discussed.
These Wonen's Institutes are held
at the same time and locality rs tho
mems institutes. Different halls are
provided. but the institute is held on
the same day n ia the same place
as the regular County Farmers Instt-
tute.
There IS no question or the need Of
these Institutes. There Is just as great
need and opportunity for Improvement
in the homes Of the state as on the
farms. 1t is probably true that the
teachings of modern science have
hnde less impress on the household
practices Of the South than anywhere
else. The idea has prevailed that
Domestic science referred only to
cooking and sewing but this error i
being dispelled. Women are now
studying sanitation. hygiene and bac-
terlology as they relate thereto. the
nutritXc value. cost and adulteration
Of foods. the care and diet Of the
GROWING child The care and diet Of the
sick. and the adnrament and beauti-
Tying Of the home both out p inside
the house.
The farmers have learned to venti-
late and keep sanitary their stabIes
for live stock and to feed them for
much less than before feeding prob
lens were studied from IA scientific
standpoint, and now ii seems they
might devote some time 10 the study
Of feeding themselves in al rational
and economical manner.
An attempt viii be made to hold
several Of these Womcu's institutes
during the coming summer in onnec
tion with the regular Flrmcfs' Insti-
tutes for men and If interest and
progress is obtained they wiiI be ex-
tended until every Farmers Institute
Will be supplemented BY an institute -
the sam" time and place for women.
~ hrs1 1t viii be necessary in acran9-
ing Tor these trial Institutes to worE
trough the chairmcn Of the couaty.
farmers Institute Committee. and
IN cooperation Of these is asked b.
~. bulIer IN case they think a uo-
man institute feasible"