Middletown transcript., 1915-08-07

THE KITCHEN is HONNiNS
WATER.
College Park.-Ths fact that some
farmers wives and daughters are not
the only women who are at times en-
barrassed because of the meager
stipend handed them by their huS-
bands was brought out in the class
room of the ministers school at the
Maryland Agricultural College. It
was shown that preachers wives suf-
fer from the same Inconvenience. In
formation regarding the country wom-
en- was revealed in the lecture BY
Miss Taft on the equitable distribu-
tion or division Of the farm income,
while the information as to the min
isters' wives was furnished by the
preachers themselves.
The lecture and subsequent discus
sion of the facts in the case were OF
great interest, and the ministers
showed that they were in possession
of few facts along this line. One
of the ministers went so far as to say
that the only money some preachers
wives got is half of the marriage fees.
He added that if the parson had no
marriages his wife got no money
Miss Taft created considerable amuse-
ment by declaring that about the only
certain things in the life II farmers
wife are her board, clothes and q
steady job, and sometimes a few eggs
and butter to sell. She insisted that
to make them happy and contented
and to give them a certain degree OF
independence, they ought 10 be given
an amount of money, for the spending
of which they would have to give an
account to no one, and according to
Miss Taft, the farmers wife is queen
of the country and her dignity ought
not to be curtailed by stingy huS-
bands
Their Greatest Need.
1t was shown, further, in the talk
by Miss Taft that much good would
be accomplished IL the farmer would
give his wife the same consideration
he gives his hired men. Miss Taft
said the farmer provides all manner
of labor-saving devices for the labor
ers on the farm, but seldom thinks
about putting any such devices in his
kitchen to save his wife from much
drudgery. Miss Taft said that not
long since she wrote about 300 letters
to farmers wives, asking them what
they desired most to facilitate the
work in their kitchens, and they re-
piled, about unanimously, that run
ming water would be most helpful, and
yet few of them have such conven-
ience.
In his address on the development
of American agriculture Professor
Bomberger was of the opinion that
the war will result in the greatest de-
velopment of land interests the coun-
try has known in many years.
Asked for his opinion as to the cause
of the present high cost nf living he
said without hesitation, that the un-
usual yield of gold during the last
20 years had sent the prices soaring.
He referred to the fact that more gold
has been mined in the last 20 years
than in the history of America pre-
vious to that time.
Live Stock on the Farm.
The ministers attended their first
lecture at the experiment station. The
first of the lectures was by Professor
Ruffner, who spoke on the use OF
livestock on the farm. This was in
teresting to the preachers, as all of
them have to keep horses and some
of them cows. The lecturer scored
the person who drives a horse with a
sore back, and said he knew a preach
er who did that very thing,
He scored what he termed a woe
full lack of soil conservation by the
Maryland farmer. He said they must
tect the fertility of the soil. In order
to carry out this theory. he said It
would be necessary for each farmer to
raise one COW for each three acres OF
land. At the present time. said Pro
fessor Ruffner, in the State there is
but one COW to every IL acres of land.
He strongly advised the farmers to
raise their own colts and to make
| good horses of them instead of being
compelled to purchase their stock.
DR.. H. ]. Patterson was given a
warm welcome upon his appearance
at the woodland theatre at the Mary
land Agricultural College. where the
final session of the summer school for
teachers was held.
Dr. Patterson responded to the re-
peated calls for a speech and comph-
mented the teachers upon their wide
awake spirit. He said. In part:
"It is on you, teachers and preach
ers of Maryland, that the greatest bur-
den falls in the work for lettering
country life, for yours is the greatest
opportunity. Country life, at its best,
is a wonderfully satisfying life-at its
worst, 1t is little better than serfdom.
You must be the messengers and in
spirers Of this full and satisfying coun-
try life"
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