The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-10-16
MISSOURI FARM WOMAN.
Manages Her Own Farr: and Helps
the Government.


help of man. A college woman, cul-
tured, travelled and gifted with tre-
mendous executive ability, she has
chosen above all things to which she
might be fitted, the life Of farmer.
She lives in her own home, inherited
from her late parents, on the Boone
vile pike, ten miles from Columbus.
Mo. She is a farmer solely because
she likes it.
Throughout Missouri, Miss Mitchell
is referred to lovingly as the farm
woman because more effecually
than any one else in the state, she
works to improve the condition and
surroundings of women in isolated
country districts. She is president
of the Missouri Farm Women's club,
and in reality the creative force be-
hind that organization. She is secre-
tary of the Missouri Homeseeker's
conference, and a member of the
State Rural commission, appointed by
Governor Major.
These official positions are not sine
cures with Miss Mitchell. She as
sumes both the responsibility and the
honors that such positions entail.
Her chief altruistic efforts are di-
rected toward the carrying out of
her own practical ideas with regard
to the uplift of farm women. All
her ideas are founded on practical
experience gained by her lifelong res
idence among them.
Miss Mitchell believes that the un-
rest of farm women is due in large
measure to the lack of conveniences
in farm homes. She thinks that the
chief cause of dissatisfaction among
country young people is the lack of
recreation and diversion in rural
communities. Better homes, equip
ped with modern labor saving devices
and social centres, where the boys
and girls may indulge in wholesome
amusements, will do much, in her
opinion, toward solving the problem
of keeping people on the farms.
Just at present Miss Mitchell is en-
gagged in the working out of sys-
tenn of community association for So
cial and educational purposes. She
is occupied also in instructing country
women in the uses of devices for the
tightening of manual labor. And al
ways she studies methods for the i'm
provement of farm neighborhood's.
Miss Mitchell is not the owner of
an immense landed estate. A model
farm 365 acres in extent constitutes
her domain. Forest Home, the old
pioneer house in which she resides,
is the homestead on land grant
made to her people in the early days.
The original documents signed by
President Andrew Jackson and John
Quincy Adams, which granted the
land to her forefathers, are in her
possession. The main wing of the
beautiful old dwelling, built in the
white pillared colonial style, with
broad verandas, is made of logs and
hand-hewn boards, and has stanchly
weathered more than half century.
The sweeping lawns and the grove of
magnificent oak and forest elms, from
which the place derives it's name,
make of it one of the most beautiful
country places in the state.
Il sincerely believe that farming
is the ideal profession for woman"
Miss Mitchell asserted, as she sat
one afternoon on the front veranda
of her very charming home. "A we'll
managed farm affords to woman a
certain dear independence. The work
ing of it gives to her scientific train
ing and contact with widely differ
ing people, 1t furnishes her wits an
outlet for the homemaEir" instinct
possible in scarcely any other profess
sion."
"A woman's instinct for detail ac-
crues to her advantage when she be-
comes a farmer" she continued. "Ev-
cry farm woman should personally
manage her own farm, for she will
find that she can do it better than
any one else.
Both personally and directly l
superintend my own farm. If fence
is to built I survey the course, see
that every post is in exact position,
and that every strand of wire is prop
erly stretched During haying-and
don't you love the haying-1 must
know to. my own satisfaction that all
the stacks are correctly builded, and
every wisp of grass rightly cured
for winter storage"
"Perhaps pigs are my speciality
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