The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-10
BETTER FARMING SPECIAL
IS SCORING Big SUCCESS
Continued From Page One.


If you were to ask "a boy what he
expects to do in life, he probably
would tell you that the will be a mer-
chant. doctor, a lawyer, a farmer"
says Miss Hoover. 'Tf you ask girl
what she expects to become, she prob
ably will not tell you, but she knows
with a great deal more certainty than
does her brother. He may be a doc
tor, farmer or whatever he had
hoped, and he may not. The chances
are nine out of ten that she will become
homemaker.
"Yet. with that fact known we have
been giving to her the same sort of
school training as her brother receives.
They start together, they study the
same subjects through the grade school,
the high schools-the subjects that are
designed to fit the young man for his
life work. The girl gets out of school
prepared to do the same work as the
young man, and she does the same
work
at is psychological truth 'that we
like to do those things that We can do
best. If a young woman is best quail
fed to teach she will prefer school
work. If she can use a typewriter
skillfully she naturally will take to
stenography. If she can make fudge
better than anything else that is what
she will want to do. 80
LAS it is a certainty that 80 per
cent of the women will do, why Is it
not of the very first Importance to
train them for that profession? They
should be expert home makers. They
should know how to make bread, how
to take care Of the sick, how to per-
form all the many duties that are al
most certain to fall to their lot. Their
skill will not only increase their own
interest and pleasure in the work, but
will be a great benefit to all in the
community, and is essential if We are
to make the progress we should.
Babies Worth More Than Colts.
There are 100000 children die each
year in this country before reaching
the age of one year. A very large pro-
portion of those deaths are due to the
lack of skill on the part of mothers
who do not know how to care for
babies properly. Suppose there were
100000 colts or 100000 lambs dying
each year? What would happen? The
men would be up in arms and the gov
eminent would have it's experts out to
determine the cause of the epidemic
and what should be done to stop it.
Certainly it is of more Importance
to conserve the lives of the little chill
dren than it is to protect and improve
our birds and f1ocks. Yet we have been
neglecting to train those who are to
har IF 10 cran finn
What is needed, particularly on the
farms of North Dakota, is the proper
sort of education for the young women
the sort of training that is afforded
in the four-year course in home eco
nomics as given at the college of agri-
culture.
1.-THE girl should pursue the school
course with her brothers during the
first years of her educational work.
But she should not be required to fol-
low him in the training that is aimed
to fit him for his life work Hers is to
be along entirely different lines and
she should have special training for it.
She should know how best to fulfill her
mission in life, how to make real
home and make 1t homelike.
Practical Suggestions for Women.
Hundreds of women have visited the
better farming special train during
the first days of it's six weeks on
the road. Those in charge of the
home economics car find the greatest
of interest displayed in the exhibit ar
ranged to show the scope of the work
done by the girls at the farm schools.
But they are not limiting their efforts
to arousing interest in the education
of the young. They are giving many
valuable suggestions to the wives and
mothers whose school days are past.
And the older pupils seem eager and
apt. They are getting ideas that can,
with a little effort, be put into effect
in any farm home and that will, add
to the comfort and convenience of all
in the household.
In fact, an effort has been made in
arranging the exhibits in the various
cars of the road to train, to avoid every
thing novel and to present only such
things as might be had in any farm
home. The idea in taking the train to
the farmers of the west is not only to
show them what can be done to i'm
prove crops and conditions of life on
the farm, but what they can do to i'm
prove their own farm and to impress
upon them why they should do 1t.
Acres of Farmers.
The interest displayed in the train,
in the talks given by the demonstra-
tors on the cars and in the lectures
held in the various halls along the
route, is not confined to the women
fc - l..
quality. 'tWe expected them to come
by the hundreds, and they are COM
ing by the acre." is the way Prof
T. A. Hoverstad superintendent of
farmers Institutes in North Dako-
ia, expressed it. He is in charge of
the corps of experts from the farm
school, and estimates that more than
1000 people went through the train
on Monday, the first day out from
Fargo.
Farmers Are Wide Awake.
The tour of the better farming special
is demonstrating not only that the
farmers of North Dakota are prosper
Gus, but that they realize that the
resources of their state and Of their
own farms are only beginning to be
developed; that they are ready and
anxious to make the most of their OPP
portunities. There is every indication
that the interest shown in the train
and the work of the agricultural ex-
perts- aboard will continue during the
six weeks that the special will be on
the Northern Pacific and branch lines
between Fargo and the Pacific coast.
The interest Is not confined to the
farmer and his wife, but is shared by