The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-10-18
HOME MAKING ON
farm PARTNERSHIP
HUSBAND AND WIFE
WIFE SHOULD HAVE SOME IN.
FORMATION OF THE FARM
BUSINESS.
MEETING GROUND FOR The HOME
A United Effort for the improvement
of the Household as Well as the
Farm Results-A System Should Be
Thoroughly Established.
(By Margaret B. Foulks.)

(By Margaret B. Foulks.)
After writing the bulletin, "A Talk
to Farmers Wives" the writer was
asked this question: How can a
farmers wife run her home on bus
mess basis when she does not know
how much she can spend or when she
can spend it, and often does not know
how much of the home supplies will
be produced on the place and how
much bought?" If the farm and the
home were united practical bust
ness, both partners having an equal
interest, an equal knowledge and an
equal voice in the matter of money
put in and spent, there would be no
need of the above question.
If two people are to be partners,
work and live to bring the best 70
| suits in their business, they must
stury 1t from every standpoint. they
must know how much they can or are
willing to put into it, then work to
bring about the greatest possible sue
cess from the capital, time and labor
invested.
If the farmer is often Indifferent. to
home making, SO too, is the woman
too often too utterly ignorant of soils,
stock, crops, etc. have known coun-
try homes where early vegetables
were never grown, and later ones
neglected because the men were too
busy with what seemed more neces-
sary work to plant or care for gar
den. | know country home today
that doesn't raise chickens for the |
home because the women consider
them too much trouble. There is a |
meeting ground where each can take |
sufficient interest in the other de-
partment, so that they may work for |
the good of the other as well as them
selves. insist that the success of |
the home means the success of the /
business, and when / say that, ! do
not mean that the home must be a
palace Of Injuries. 1t matters not
the cost of the home, it may be log
shack, a sod hut, or palace, the
same principles must be used il /. is
to send forth it's members to their
various duties with fresh energy,
clear brains and strong muscles.
The farm that is producing poor
crops, poor stock, poor poultry today,
is being managed by farmer who is
not up to his standard of brain and
powers, and farmer not
his best in these qualities comes from
a home of poor management and sys-
tenn and the home of poor manage
ment and lack of system is such nine
times out Of ten because of lack of
united interest. When the farmer
states that money must go for fertil-
lzers, seeds and machinery, the wo-
man too often agrees, thinking that
It will bring better returns than that
much put in labor saving devices,
study of home making and foods.
If your farm is not producing as
It should, if you need fertilizers, ma
,hinery or knowledge, if the home is
1ot giving forth strong, active brains
md muscles, go call meeting Of the
partner you are in business with and
ind out together what the home
leeds, not wants if you please
l am not asking you for finer
ZONES, more expensive clothes, food
n spending money. l am not asking
hat there be less improvement in
and and product. do not advise
hat the farmer study domestic sci
nee or household economy, nor am I
advocating that the woman object to
my improvement the farm can have,
tut l do ask that there be a meeting
'round and on united effort.
l would that every member of our
arm homes would unite with me in
he pledge to work with undivided
'ffort to make Tennessee lead our
lation in farm homes, producing 4
lean, healthy and happy lives, fol-
owing with successful crops, fine
took, poultry, houses and barns.