Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-03-28
WOMAN AS A FARMER
Her Home Preservation Instincts FL
Her for Farm Training.

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Her Home Preservation Instincts Fit
Her for Farm Training.
No subject is greater or Of more i'm
portance than food production. Fur
ther1nore, 1t Is of vital interest not
only to every individual Of the pres
ent generation, but to the generations
Of Americans yet to populate these
United States, says H. H. Bullerton,
director of agricultural development,
New York.
The subject Is more vital than the
tariff to even the owner Of manufac-
tory. who yearns for the free list on
his particular raw material and pos
itvely prohibitive import duty on the
specific brand of finished product he
turns out.
/ 1t is of vastly greater import than
either high or low finance, terms grad
ually being recognized as synonymous
and running a neck-and-neck race
with the practices Of that portion of
L
ed upon as undesirable citizens"
| 1t is even more far-reaching than
hikes" or the destruction Of letters
and other personal property belonging
to perfectly law-abiding and inoffen-
sive humankind.
It Is Of even greater moment than
the 'high-cost- living problem, for
| It is the one important factor in the
solution of that problem which draws
the line of demarcation between life
and death.
| Indications have shown to even
those not deeply interested or keenly
observant that the writer Is not In
hearty sympathy with that extremely
limited number Of women who consid-
er that barbaric methods inflicted upon
themselves or innocent fellow coun-
trymen are justihable or laudatory.
Yet on the other hand the writer
recognized that woman was not only
equal but superior to man in all things
that have to do with the better and
bigger things Of life.
Also that as helpmeet to man she
was Justly entitled to good, big,
rousing majority of the percentage
points in the partnership. And care
full analysis of the bulk Of life's part
nerships will prove conclusively to
even the most biased analyst that this
point is well taken. ~
The powers Of observation confer
red upon the writer show that in all
classes and In all Of the many differ
ing nationalities met during some
what broad life the predominating
characteristics selected by nature to
rule all others were marked indeed. In
man, when thrown off his guard or
stripped Of super civilization veneer,
representation was the basic mo-
tive actuating his every move. With
woman, equally marked and standing
out with startling prominence as her
fundamental instigator Of every act
was the bigger, better and far more
Important incentive-home. preserva-
ton.
This Is not a new faddism; 1t Is not
even an ultra radical statement by any
manner Of means, for it is a fact, de-
monstrated with startling force at the
present day as well as by the printed
written and symbolic records Of the
known past and even by the myths
and legends linking the twentieth CEN
tury with countless are OF the pre-
historic period.
| America has, for the trifiing number
OF generations since its settlement by
others than the red race, been able tc
subsist. Enormously have American
despoilers of natures eons-built-uI
fertility, claimed as their own the
wonderful successes and marvellous
accumulations Of wealth as due en-
tirely to themselves, when in truth
the waste and destruction Of untold
incompatible wealth by the slap-dash
skinning and skimming methods oi
man, with his one impelling motive
has brought In less than 300 years this
most favored of all countries face to
face with a food problem OF far great,
er import than any historic loca
famine.
about until supply and demand again
are given the proper place in supreme
control of Americas food. And this
can be brought about by women alone
The women of the cities, actuated by
their impelling motive, home preser-
walton, are already banding together
only as squads and companies, as yet
but in conformity to normal methods
these will shortly coalesce into one
stupendous, compelling and fnvincible
army, and through public markets, ir
fact as we'll as name, will obliterate
the food speculator, who has In few
brief years amassed billions by use ol
capital belonging to consumers ano
producers and entirely without theil
consent or giving in any way, manner
or form value received, but, leech-like
living entirely upon the efforts and be-
longings of others.
II Neither man-nature nor man-educa
tion develops the characteristics so VI
tally necessary to the grower OF vege'
tables, berries, fruits and flowers ol
the raiser Of animals or fowls. In wo.
lmen is inherent the love of young liv-
ing things. Man usually cares but lit.
tie for the Seeding plant or help!es:
young ANIMAL his thoughts and II
fact all his enforced efforts In behal
OF HVlnS tnlnSS just SldrlinS llie di'
actuated entirely by his predominant
haracteristic-self preservation-ant
the young thing Is looked upon merely
as a necessary nuisance.
!; Therefore, as upon women we mus
rely for the proper management OF oul
gardens, farms and orchards, 1t Is
vital necessity that schools be estab'
| lished at once where the scientific
teaching of the classroom can be driv'
: en- home and practically demonstrated
in the open under the normal condi
tions surrounding the outdoor profes
| sion.
Americas first agricultural schoo
for women, like Americas first con
gress, first mint, first diplomat ant
=, first secretary of agriculture, all be-
long to Pennsylvania historic items
, to which its people point with grea
pride. Therefore, it Is safe to asser
that the descendants Of those who dit
so much in Colonial days Of need, vii
at once place upon a firm foundation
the urgent present-day need-a thor
oughly equipped agricultural college
!, for women.