The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-12
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ture. but they should know it by hav-
ing grown up on the soil.
"Our law demands the teaching of
agriculture in the rural schools, but AL
too many of the young women who go
to the country to teach have only
slight text book knowledge of farming.
That branch of study is now taught
only in the seventh and eighth grades.
and it should be taught in earlier
grades. The teacher should study the
needs of the particular community in
which she is placed. A Kaw valley
farm cannot be worked in the same
way as a prairie farm. and a teacher
should know the differences in soil
and proper crops.
1.-The teacher also should be a COM
munity leader and the living voice of
the government. by which the ma
TONS plan of food conservation, food
production, Red Cross work, etc, may
be conveyed to the minds of the rural
| communities. There is factor in
rural society so able to stimulate a
desire for greater food production
than the teacher"
Mrs. Forbes Talks Stock.
Mrs. Harry T. Forbes addressed the
stock. II was country born and
| brought up" she said, land was
taught the principles of farming by
my parents. I married a man who
raising of pure bred short horn cattle.
After a study of that branch of agri-
| culture, my husband made me a full
partner in the business. After twelve
years of work in that business, there
| is no phase of it that 1 couldn't han
die. The raiser of pure bred stock
should cooperate with the Agricul-
tural college people, the livestock SAN
itary commissioner, the county farm
bureau and farm agent The COM
partnership of animals teaches one to
know them as individuals. just as you
know people, and it makes it posi-
BILE to learn to care for them, to nurse
them in sickness and injuries. If your
men go away to war. there is no bet
ter greeting you could have ready for
them on their return. than a little
| herd of pure bred stock
Another speaker of the day was
Miss l.. A. Krigbaum, of Pauline, who
| operates a farm of forty acres and
does practically all the work herself.
| Amy woman" she says, who can do
| the work of a house-washing IRON
| ing, sweeping, etc, can do farm work.
! 1t is mistaken notion that it is i'm
possible for a woman to pillow and put
| UP hay. 1t is not harder than house
| work, if she knows how to manage
| to save herself the heaviest part of
| the work, by doing it in smaller as
| signments. 1 do my own feeding, Gull
| tivating, etc. But this is true that no
| woman can do both farm work and
| house work. When I find that I am
getting too tired, I do up the morn
! ing chores and then go to bed for half
| a day This rests me so that / can
| finish out the days tasks. For farm
work wear a costume of denim ma
terial which I make myself"
Mrs. Billiard on Program.
| Mrs Cora Wellhouse Billiard was on
the program for an address. Mrs. Bull
lard is life, honorary member OF the
State Agricultural society, life mem
Der of the Horticultural society life
member of the Kansas Breeders as
I ISOLATION, and of the council of de-
| Tense, as we'll as a member of the text
book commission. She is greatly con-
cerned over the farm labor SITUATION.
| She said that on her farm her hus-
band had paid Sc a day for labor, and
had been unable to get enough work
| ers even at that price. During the
| cold spell she was obliged to go out
! and bring in fodder from the fields to
| feed 100 head of stock because it was
| impossible to get help. and that thou
sands of bushels of apples had frozen
| on the trees in Leavenworth county
because men could not be had to pick
| them. This situation obtains in
i county that has access to the labor
! markets of Kansas City, St. Joseph
| and Topeka-Tonganoxie being with
F, in an hours ride of any of those
| points. Mrs. Billiard had to go home
1
today on account of the shortage of
! help on the farm.
Mrs. DeWitte c. Nellis had an ad-
dress on Training for Agricultural
| Work" She read an article from a
book written some years ago by her
daughter. Mrs. Charles Albert Phillips
of Seattle, Wash. The book was is
! sued a short time after Mrs. Phillips
return from abroad, where she studied
in some of the large foreign Univer-
sites. The article was description
of an Agricultural and Horticultural
School just outside of Berlin.
Mrs. Saxon is anxious that the State
II Agricultural College be petitioned to
ask for a course of instruction in
various branches of farming to the
women of all the counties of the state,
just as the extension department of the
school has sent ont instructors, or tenn
porary schools of instruction in cook
cry, for the women.
Election of Officers.
The election of officers will be held
at the close of the days meeting. Mrs.
Saxon, as the promoter of the or
ganization, will probably be chosen as
its first president. 1t is expected that
MRS. A. D. Folker will be made secre-
tary. Mrs. Folker is the wife of the
County Farm Agent, to whom she was