Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-01

England and other countries as we'll
today. There is no occupation more
suitable for women, she maintains
than light agriculture, but at present
the woman of culture who goes in for
1t is cut off from association with peo-
pie Of her own rank in life and stand
ard of education. She is often forced
to live alone in a village where her
only society is that of the farm laborers
and their families, who are good PEG.
pie enough, hut whose mental horizon
Is necessarily bounded by their educa-
ton and opportunities, The result Is
that the lady farmer soon finds herself
sinking to their intellectual level. She
becomes a slave to her round OF work
and soon her outlook is confined like
that of her peasant neighbors, to the
crops and the weather. The Womeu's
Agricultural club will change all this
by providing just the society and the
opportunities for intellectual develops
ment and recreation which bind so
many persons to the unhealthy and un.
economical life of the cities.
THE REAL WORKERS.
The resident members win be the
real workers on the land and there
will be a constant stream OF fresh life
flowing into the community as the
temporary pupils come and go.
1--WE are convinced that the work We
are doing Is the thing needed for the
regeneration of England" Mrs. Wood
hull said to me the other day. "Agr1-
culture in England has fallen into a
8rievous state and what IL needed to-
day Is the application OF brains to tho
land There are just three things in
modern life that matter-hnDnce, girl
culture and economics The land Is
neglected and impoverished by bad
and unscientific cultivation. No one
can estimate the value of the work
done in scientific agriculture by Tuth-
er Burbank in California and we in
tend to turn his work to practical adj
vantage in England.
MUST BE sELF-sUPPoRrINGh
"The scheme to be successful, Of
course. must be run on commercial
| lines and must be absolutely seii-sup-
porting. OF course my daughter and !
| have financed IT at the start put 1t 10
now on an absolutely sound basis and
/ Ia sure to succeed. We want to train
| our pupils to realize the necessity or
| sound business methods for that is q
| feature too often neglected by the agrl-
| culturist."
II think the solution OF the lana
problem is largely question OF an or
ganized movement to widen me nehtal
| horizon of the workers in our villages
| and 10 get them to cooperate adde
Migs woodruff. ut is not however,
| only the landless who need teaching.
The landowners quite as much nave
vet TO learn what to do with their lana
For instance, 20 start associations
for cooperative fruit-grading, sorting
and packing, cambinlns tie results Ior
| TRANSPORT ~ an immense advance on the
| old methods. But we must not stop
there. We must only grow the best
| kinds of trees. yielding tho maximum
| results I'm profits. This is national
question because England cannot nope
10 compete with other countries IN tho
cultivation OF -pershable products
Long distances from markets ana the
expenses of transport which foreign
competitors have to overcome, are more
than counterbalanced by the Increased
taxation and enhanced land values
which the home producers have to
meet. Large farms are rapidly Decom-
ing thing OF the past, The trend OF
present day agriculture Ia I'm tho d.
rection of small farms devoted to in
tensive culture which requires expert
knowledge
CAPABLE VS.. INCOMPETENT.
"To succeed ON the land Is the ques
tlon OF the ihdividual-the man or tn
woman The great cry everywhere i
for absolute efficiency. The great strug
gle today In agriculture as I'm com
merce Is between the skilled and cap
able men and women aud the incompo
tent who are a drug on the progrossiy
spirit,
"Thc club IS Intended to be an intel
lectual center In nm agricultural com
munity What ! may call the residen
members are the real workers on N
land rhey rent small plots In III
nelghborhond and eithor live entirel
al the club or reside In cottages on IA
holdings and take all their meals al TN
club. This obyiatea the difficulty OF oh
tanning suitable attendance, which
one al the greatest Disadvantages me
by women living alone In the countr
ANA unabh 10 devote their time I
nous hold matters The cost of Twin
I'D ~, Ions Norton ig not great and d
necessity occurs ether cottages VIII
built on lines 10 suit The exact needs (
the circumstance
ONLY a BEGINNING.
; The FREEDOMS Norton club Is only