The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-18
Two Thousand Women Enrolled In
Farm and Garden Association; To
Meet In Chicago On October SO

An organization which has a mem
bership now of about 1000 women,
the National Woman's Farm AMI
Garden association, will convene in
Chicago Oct. 8. 4 and for it's fourth
annual meeting. The sessions will be
held in the assembly rooms 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 woman in
! America who wishes to fit herself for
the land army whose business it will
be, to increase the supply Of food
during the next five years; to con-
serve the livestock, to increase the
cultivation of grains and vegetables
and to be ready, if needed, to take
the places of men on farms in case
this country should be drawn into a
protracted world struggle.
The present members of this asso-
citation are engaged in the manage
ment Of their own farms or are
employed as managers of farms,
directing the tilling of the soil, the
raising Of livestock, hogs, poultry.
rabbits, guinea pigs, or other forms
of agricultural business, also women
interested in forestry, gardening from
the amateur standpoint, community
gardens and landscaping.
The original purpose Of the asso-
citation 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 women in home activities.
In addition to the active member
ship, there. are associate and sup
porting members, besides college
women who are making scientific
studies under the direction of the de-
partment of agriculture for the adap-
ton of rare and foreign fruit and
food plants to different soils and To-
calities.
One woman who is the wife of
college professor living in Beaumont,
Texas, is testing out a 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 a contract to sup
ply the Rockefeller institute for in
fictitious diseases.
Hundreds Of opportunities Of like
nature, Offering women new fields of
work, win 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 full report Of
the work now 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, livestock, shrubs and
flowers and they are making noble ef-
forts to offset the terrible destruc-
tion by embattled armies in trench
warfare especially in France and
Belgium. II is truly said that 1t will
take one hundred years to rebuild the.
gardens Of France alone.
The committee on Extension of
membership invites anyone interest
ed to send in the names of leading
women in each state whoa will be
willing to undertake the work of
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 obtain
ed by writing to the secretary on
membership and extension. Miss
Hilda Loines. 500 Lexington avenue,
New York city, Miss Lena May Me-
Cauley, AIS st. James Place. Chicago
or Miss Catherine Cook, 122 South
Michigan avenue, Chicago.