Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-04-29
Secretary of Agriculture Told of
Loss of Individuality.
Would Have Husbands Made by Inv
to Provide as Well for Their
Women ns They DO for
Their stock.

its service for them The replies have
been collected under 100 subheads and
the suggestions published under bullc-
tins dcnominated as the Social and
Labor Needs" the Economic Needs"
and the Domestic Needs of Farm
Women" The complaints of farm wonl-
en- are many and various in these vol
umes says the Washington correspond
ent of the New York Evening Post.
There is n manifest desire on their part
to make farm life not only attractive
for themselves. but for their offspring.
incidentally, there Is general complaint
that 1.-THE farm is now run for the farm"
and for the welfare of no one on it,
The farm is run for the benefit of
the farm and not the family" Michi-
gan woman wrote to Mr.. Houston. "Of
what use is it to buy more land to raise
more corn to feed more hogs to buy
more land?" she most pertinently in
quires.
The general impression among farm
women who wrote Mr. Houston seems
to be that their men need to be odu-
Gated up to the point as Massachu-
setts woman put it. where he regards
his wife an important factor and the
first. not the last. to be considered"
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