Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-12-26
Women Farmers Seldom Fail.

1t is said that in Kansas there are
over 1900 women who are the active
managers of farms, and that there is
scarcely one who has not made a sue
cess of her work. Many of these women
farmers are widows, who were left with
farms on their hands" when their hus-
bands died, and who have gone bravely
ahead in the work that was handed over
to them from the nerveless hands of be-
loved ones. Sometimes they found very
great problems to face in the way of in
cumberance, but almost never has one
failed to pay up the debt and secure
the farm clear and free as support in
her old age, or for the use of children.
Some study has been given to the
women farmers of Kansas with a view
to discovering why they have been so
uniformly successful. The first great
reason is said to lie in the fact that SO
per cent. of these Kansas women who
are managing their farms and making
successes of the enterprises are scien-
tific farmers. They do not profess to
know all that there is to be learned
about farming, and it is fair to presume
that many of them have had little ex
perience in the management of the
farm, though they have been farmers
daughters and farmers wives. The
direction of things has been left to the
men. But when the woman finds that
it has come upon her shoulders, she sets
out at once to learn all she possibly can
about the conduct of farm. She studies
the bulletins and reports of the depart
ment of agriculture, takes membership
in clubs devoted to agriculture, joins
farmers institutes, attends lectures.
In this manner, they learn how to i'm
prove the crops, and what precautions
must be taken against imperfect crops.
When the harvest comes, the result is
shown in the fact that their products
are generally of excellent grade and
they secure higher prices than most of
their neighbors. While a man will
scout the effort of the State or govern
ment to give him any instruction as to
how to pillow and plant, what to plant,
how to treat the seed and the SOIL ard
various other details about farming, the
woman will take the advice of the
teachers who have learned the lessons
in the experiment stations and through
the investigations that have been
carried on both at home and abroad.
Also it is said, women have the faculty
of getting better service firm those in
their employ than men can get from the
same number of employees. They are not
so impatient with their workmen, and
secure, generally speaking. better serv-
ice. This may be due to the fact that
the hired men have a certain chivalry
that leads them to do their best for the
woman employer, while they regard the
man as we'll able to take care of himself.
and he is thus fair target for the
matching of wits and devices for get
ting rid of work or neglecting it.
| The Kansas women farmers are not,
of course, the only examples that may
be given of women who are successful in
business enterprises, farming included,
in all sections of the country. Often they
succeed-much more frequently than
they fail, and it has often been re-
marked that when woman devotes
herself to business life, and sets out
to grasp it's details and meet its emer-
gencies, she displays determination
and staying power that eventually
brings handsome reward. Utica
Observer.