The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-01-11
women As FARMERS
Outdoor Life Is Luring to Dwell.
Iers on Prairies.
Daughters Of Two Men, Who Wers
Disabled, Prove Expert AsrieuI-
turlsts-Perform All Kinda
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-
tions. Some Of them declare that
much of the work may he 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 a success
at farming are the Misses Ruby aud
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 a 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
are not seen at the county seat or
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 farm.
Her father is a well-known citizen of
Sumner township. Reno county, but
In the summer he was disabled by a
serious accident and the burden fell
upon his daughter to manage the
work Rossing a hired man and q
boy. and doing a 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 field Of 80 acres
She proudly hoasted 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 Rennte Griem, Kfngman county
farmer. One of them was teaching
school near Zenda. and the other two
were attending Kingman high school
When their father was taken Ill the
three girls came home from theil
schools and sailed in to run that
farm. The elder sister, the school
.ma'am, prepared the ground and
planted several acres of corn with her
own hands. besides putting out other
crops. The two high school girls
rolled up their sleeves and made full
hands on the farm.
The three of them plowed corn
lmilked COWS. delivered cream, har
vested wheat and oats, cut 80 acres OF
alfalfa three cuttings. put up lot Of
prairie hay. raised corn that made 81
bushels to the acre and performed
every bit of the farm work unassast
ed. Not a man was seen on the Griem
place all summer. When their father
was able to be out they pointed tt
'granaries full Of corn and wheat, the
barns housing fat cattle and sleel
horses, and the bank account intact
They were proud of the fact that they
did not pay out a dollar to men t<
achieve this record.
Generally the women of Kansas wht
have turned from the cities to the sim
pie life out in the country are no
concerned about marriage. They an
women Of mature years and Judgment
to whom marriage relation does mo-
appeal unless it carries with it energ,
and the ability to make living.