The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-25

Last year the agricultural products
 of the United States fell little short of six and one-haif billion dollars. How
 much of this sum country women con- tributed can be judged from the fact that the dairy and poultry industries
 footed up one-fifth of the whole. It Is mostly women who attend to the butter and egg production.
 But women farmers do much more. They are in all branches of,agriculture. from working cotton plantations to raising garden vegetables and growing | flowers for market. They own and op- crate live stock farms and ranches. If social standing counts for anything. these women farmers are real ladies' too. Did not her grace the Duchess of Devonshire exhibit from her own Brit ish farm last year the pair of first prize Berkshire hogs? If that isn't warrant enough for the woman farmer. what is? But, indeed. in every quarter of the United States women who need no title to proclaim their nobility are succeed ing as practical farmers, many of them far better than average men farmers. As far as North Dakota, there the successful woman farmer is. It is diff ficuit to see how any man living could
 have accomplished more than Emma
 Kelly, Kansas girl, has done. For
 pure srit. shrewdness and industry she
 stands as an example to womankind.
 The spirit of adventure was born in
 Miss Kelly. She went overland to the
 Kfondike in 1887; thence to Fairbanks,
 in the Panama district of Alaska. In
 many places she secured claims, some
 of which banned out. others did not,
 but she was not discouraged At Inter-
 vals as winter set in she returned to
 visit her parents in Kansas, going back
 "A ha waIA mn it1 bn gnPff10 Thtu
 remarkable girl has made six trips to
 Alaska. At length she placed her min
 ing interests in the hands of persons
 she could rely on and came home and
 drew a quarter section of land at the
 opening of the Devils Lake Indian res
 ervation in North Dakota. Her ranch
 was in the heart of the great northern
 wheat belt where a crop needs no cul-
 ture. save sowing and reaping, and
 where one good crop pays for the soil
 on which it is planted, for house and barn and for all the expenses of tillage
 and harvesting. Only two years ago
 Mss Kelly began operations as a ranchn1an in North Dakota. She has added to her original quarter section and now owns a noble wheat farm of over 400 acres. besides twenty-one min ing. claims in Alaska. She likewise weafs q necklace of gold nuggets which she dug from one, of her Panama claims.
 Take note; What this one girl has achieved other girls fin her field or oth- CT fields of work may also achieve.
 Now let us take a jump in astral form to the extreme south of this Union. to Alabama, where a woman, Mrs. Leila 1 Seton Wilder. personally conducts'' one Of the largest cotton plantations In the | State. Mrs. Wilder fell heir to the plantation on the death of her husband 1 who lived less than two years after l hAfr rrfa Al Ap~N 0hn n ! land to tenants. That was not satis- | factory. At the same time there was | in the young widows heart an ever | growing love for the country and for | nature She found herself spending | more and more of the year in the pIan- | tation house. This naturally brought | h hlr Into closer contact with the con | duet of affairs on the land and at | length she took the whole management | into her own hands. ' Next Mrs. Wilder determined to | make model place of her plantation, |