Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-04

tute of that state, a surprise awaited I then: unsuspecting they arrived in | buggy. auto and carry all Leaving | their wives trustfully waiting. they ! entered the halls of learning This surprise that awaited them was in the form of a woman-and the ball with which she bowled them over vas the statemen: that in the year previous she had cleared from her farm S11,S92. to the wives in auto and carriage the farmers returned a sadder and wiser group She talked for a considerable length Of time. as the truth gradually dawned upon these farmers what this woman had done by running her farm on a san itary and scientific basis, ;he audi ence waxed intent. This woman farm CT of Illinois. progressive, enterpris ing, prosperous, is a significant eN ample. She is but one of an army of yomen who are tusseling with the soil from the irrigated apples OI Oregon to the rock bound potatoes of Maine The lady is taking to the talAus A4NAN cllG liGAN <hAtN leAAA AA crop of corn until it ears out. There she wheedles a flock of hens into laying. again she coaxes her bees th hive. or tempts her pigs to Xmas plumpness. Perhaps she knows II is to be the hand of the lady which shall eventually lead back to na ture this soot stained leather chained world.
 Agricultural colleges the country over are noting the movement. At first there were no women students, gradually they crept in by twos and plying for admission A private school for horticulture for women was opened this year in Pennsyl yania offering courses in the growing of vegetables, fruits and flowers; the raising of poultry and bees and produce-for it has been said that although woman can produce. she cannot market, but this Illinois wo man and her S11, ,S92 is bomb, be meath that theory. The last census showed 3O7.70e women farmers in the United States.
 Called the conservative sex, she is displaying anything but conservatism in the way in which she seiZes upon modern methods in her farming All over New England farm land is being reclaimed by women, many of them worn ou: by clerical or profes sional life, seeking the country as a refuge She has fed her land as if it were an invalid and i, passed through convelescence to health under her nursing. She choos es the right succession of crops and puts the land into proper physical condition.
 The western lands are also being settled by great number of women. Out in the sage brush country O! Idaho. a Chicago girl tramps every day in the wake of the grubber; she carries in one hand a torch and ir the other rake, every once in 6 while she stops in her march, lays down her torch and rakes the brush in 8 heap; when she has stacked il she lights her torch and fires tho stack: she watches it burn deep into the earth. and then scatters tho ashes Then she takes up he march at double quick under tho fierce sun until she overtakes tho grubber.
 This girl is one of seven womeT who have taken up quarter section! in their own names All of whom were business women back east They will build a community clul house with private sitting rooms bed rooms and community dinin room and kitchen. One expects { raise bees, another garden stuff another potatoes and another smal fruit. The social life of this sag brush country is not neglected D any means. One social functio ton took place there recently fo which 300 invitations were sent ou Some to remotest confines of th county. Most of the invitation were accepted, each complying wit request therein mentioned tn; guests should bring their ow chairs. knives, forks, spoons an plates, and one woman remarked on could scarcely see in any place
 better looking assemblage of me and women
 The women were pretty and sma looking and the men had nearly a been to college A glamour of rs ture seem to play about the liv' of all who enter this land of golde
 sunshine and golden crops and Il noteworthy fact about all the wom' is that it is pioneering.
 A generation hence there will J no excuse for an article like th
 it will be a matter of course for
 woman t1 undertake farming al
 push it through to success; if h
 talent summons in that paTticul
 direction
 Tbe Rationale of the Anti Tox
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