Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-08
WOMAN,S.FARM AND
GARDEN ASSOCIATION
TO MEET IN CHICAGO

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The National woman's Farm and
Garden association will hold it's fourth
annual meeting In Chicago, October 8,
4 and 8 in the assembly oonns Of the
New Morrison hotel. corner of Madi-
son and Clark streets.
The formal program will be supple
mented by round table discussions,
and special committees will be form
ed for extension Of the membership so
as to include every oma in Arneri-
ca who wishes to At herself for the
land army whose business It will be.
to Increase the supply of food during
the next five years; to conserve the
live stock. to increase the cultivation
of grains and vegetables, and to be
ready, il needed, to take the places of
men or farms in case this country
should be drawn into a protracted
world struggle.
The present membership Of this as
ISOLATION numbers about 1000 women
who are engaged in the management
of their w farms or who are I'M
ployed as managers of farms. direct
ing the /tilling Of the soil. the raising
of livestock, hogs, poultry, rabbits.
guinea pigs. or other forms of agrt-
cultural business, also women inter
ested In forestry. gardening from the
amateur standpoint, community gar
ueHS anu lanOScdpluBa TX
The original purpose Of the %associa-
ton was to encourage women to take
up outdoor occupations and to bring
together the rich and the poor in their
common love for gardens. to dignity
labor and to widen the field for wom-
en- in home activities.
In addition to he active member
ship, there are associate and support
ing members, besides college women
who are making scientific studies un-
der the direction of the department OF
agriculture for the adoption of rare
and foreign fruit mi food plants to
different soils and localities.
One who Is the wife of a
college professor living in Beaumont,
Texas, is testing out q Chinese plum:
a Siberian grape and a new variety of
apple originated by herself.
Another member who is the wife Of
a physician in Naperville. Indiana. IS
raising rabbits on a large scale and
finding them a profitable meat supply
and less troublesome than chickens.
In addition, she sells the skins to a
felt factory. She declares that the
only reason that rabbit meat is not SO
popular with Americans as chicken
meat is that the American women do
not know how to season and COOK
rabbits.
Another member in New York state
raises guinea pigs for laboratory work
in the study of toxins and anti-toxins.
She has q contract to supply the
Rockefeller Institute for Infectious
Diseases.
Hundreds Of opportunities of a like
nature, offering women new fields Of
work, will be opened up and thor
oughly discussed in detail.
Women who cannot themselves at
tend this meeting. should form a To-
cal association and send a delegate
who can bring back a u report OF
the work o under organization and
the plans for increasing agricultural
work by women the coming season.
The women Of Europe are keenly
alive to- the need of conservation OF
garden plants, live stock. shrubs ana
flowers and they are making noble ef-
forts to offset the terrible destruction.
fare especially in France and Bel
GUM. It is truly said that it will take
one hundred years to rebuild the gar
dens of France alone.
The Committee on Extension OF
Membership invites the readers of this
article to send in the names OF lead
ing women in each state who Will be
willing to undertake the work Q
forming an active local Woman's
Farm and Garden association under
the management and auspices of the
National Farm and Garden associa-
ton.
Full particulars can be obtained by
writing to the secretary on member
ship and extension. Miss Hilda
Loines, 900 Lexington avenue. New
York City, Miss Lena May McCauley,
AIS st. James Place. Chicago or Miss
Catherine Cook. 1872 South Michigan
avenue, Chicago.
Judge L. K. Hassel returned last
night from Maple Lake where he has
been spending the last two weeks with
His daughter Miss Dagney Hassel
will return to town his evening and
Mrs. Hassel will close the cottage for
the season, and come v or Monday.
X n Y
Mrs. John Schumer and children,
SO Cottonwood street, have returned
from Crookston where they spent q
few days as the guest of friends.
X Il y
Mrs. Harry Burton returned to her
home in this city last night. after a
four weeks absence in Milwaukee and
the Twin Cities. Mrs. Burton repre-
sented the local women's Order Of
v%ention of that order held in Milwau-
kee. Mrs. Burton was one of the
1,100 women from all sections Of the
lcountry who attended the convention,
which proved probably the most sue
~cessful Of any that has been held by
the order. One of the important de-
%cisions of the assembly was that state
conventions should be held in every
state annually from this time on.
Mrs. Burton visited her son-in-law
and daughter, MIR. n Mrs. r. A.
Wolfe. in Minneapolis, and her daugh-
ter, Miss Temple Burton, is still there
a guest at the Wolfe home.
X * ~
Interest is. centering around the
marriage Of Miss Inez Ryan. q daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Ryan OF
South Fourth street, and Ernest But
Ter, which is to take place on Wed
/. nesday at st, Mary's Catholic church.
The ceremony will begin at 9 o'clock
Father O'DriscolI officiating and read.