Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-10-03
WOMEN As FARMERS
Outdoor Life Is Luring to Dwell.
Iers on Prairies.
Daughters Of Two Men, Who Were
Disabled, Prove Expert Agricul.
turists-Perform All Kinds
Of Manual Labor.


en- are turning to agriculture and to a
life out of doors. Within the last two
years a score or more of young wom-
en- have chosen the farming vocation
In preference to teaching and to clerk
ships in stores and stenographic posi-
lions. Some of them declare that
much of the work may be done by
women now that modern machinery
has lightened the burdens of the farm
er. But the greatest benefits come,
they say, from the needed exercise
and the life in the open air.
Prominent among the young women
OF Kansas who are making success
at farming are the Misses Ruby and
Olive Herd of Hodgeman county.
These two sisters own farm seven
miles west of Jetmore. Preferring a
life of independence, they bought the
land and built modest cottage and
turned their attention to small farm
ing, poultry raising and fruit growing.
There are no Saturday half-holidays
with the two Herd sisters, for they
the local trading place on that after
noon talking politics.
These two young women were for.
| merly school teachers. Their little
home is comfortable, and it shows
every evidence of refinement.
Miss Tillie Rheinschimdt, eighteen
years old, has demonstrated this year
that she knows how to run a farm.
Her father is a well-known citizen of
Sumner township, Reno county, but
In the summer he was disabled by q
serious accident and the burden fell
upon his daughter to manage the
work Bossing a hired man and a
boy, and doing lot of the work her.
self, this bright Kansas girl has put
IN nearly 100 acres Of wheat, and per-
sonally helped in the work of gather
ing the corn from a field of 80 acres.
She proudly boosted that hers was
the first field Of corn gathered In
Sumner township
Probably the best record made by
young women on Kansas farms this
year is that of the three daughters
OF Rennie Griem, a Kingman county
farmer. One Of them was teaching
school near Zenda, and the other two
were attending Kingman high school.
When their father was taken i'll the
three girls came home from their
schools and sailed in to run that
farm. The elder sister. the school
ma'am, prepared tho ground and
planted several acres Of corn with her
own hands. besides putting out other
crops. Tho two high school girls
rolled up their sleeves and made full
hands on tho farm
The three of them plowed corn.
MIXED COWS, delivered cream, har.
vested wheat and oats, cut 80 acres Of
alfalfa three cuttings. put up q lot Of
prairie hay. raised corn that made so
bushels to the acre and performed
every bit OF the farm work unassast-
ed: Not man was seen ca the Griem
place all summer. When their father
was able to be out they pointed to
granar1os full Of corn and wheat. the
barns housing fat cattle and sleek
horses, and tho bank account intact.
They were proud OF tho fact that they
did not pay out doliar to nan to
achieve this record.
Generally the women Of Kansas who
have turned from the cities to the sim.
pie life out In the country are not
concerned about marriage. They are
women of mature years and Judgment
to whom marriage relation does not
appeal unless it carries with it energy
and the ability to make living,