Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-07-16
DEVELOPING COMMUNITY IN
TEREST THROUGH WOMEN'S
PART IN Farm BUREAU
WORK.

community interest; but few real
ize how important it is that the wo-
men take their part in its develop
ment through the farm bureau. As
has been suggested, the farm bur
eau is like stool supported by three
legs: IL one OF the supports is with
drawn, the stool can be made to
stand up by resting it against the
wall. but its solidity is gone. The
women of Colorado are as necessary
in developing the interest of Coiofnod
in the State Farm Bureau work as
any other factor and we want to
quote a few reasons why that is so.
Naturally the home demonstration
agents are watching the work of
women and girls develop with lit
tie more care and anxiety than they
do the work of the men and boys.
But this has been a noticeable fact,
that where the women have become
very much interested in project of
their own, the mems work along
widely different lines has, in nearly
every case, been strengthened. The
state leader of wGnen'. work in lda-
no said Just a few days ago; "The
mistake of putting all the stress on
the mems work in the first place in
our state, and not trying to secure
the interest of the women has held
back our farm bureau about FIVE
years. Where We have ac' w wO
men members we have our strongest
work in both lines
The women in eleven counties in
Colorado are doing definite work a
long five main lines of interest
" lien one women IS ding Al espcc-
tally interesting piece of work in
her home, through the suggestion
received at a meeting or through an
extension worker, either state or
county, she is a demonstrator of
tfat work, and part of her obligl .,un
through the farm bureau is to pass
the good news along to her neigh
bors.
1t therefore follows that the 81
water systems put into as many
homes in Colorado last year have
not only lightened the drudgerey in
these homes but each is the most
practical and inspirational sort of
lesson for four or five neighbor wo-
mo Ult mill ha fr
them in this year, for reports of the
spread of this activity are coming
in steadily. And SO 1t goes with
the six hundred odd iceless refriger-
ators and the kitchen cabinets and
high stools. In Fremont county
where there is no demonstration
mems work has, through showing
and talking of her own icelss refrig-
orator gotten about twenty other
women to make similar ones. She
has. upon request, mailed out be-
tween two and three hundred home
conveniences and water system bull
letins. The women of Fremont
County have in that way been very
instrumental in keeping up their
farm bureau interests.
We might go ON and tell you
many interesting details OF the
hundreds of made over garments
which have been re-made in the
work carried on in the clothing pro-
ject, of the forty or fifty classes in
home nursing which were, chosen by
the women in the community farm
bureaus. but carried on through the
cooperation of the Red Cross; of
hot school lunches established in
two hundred rural schools; but
space does not permit. There is
one project which is DEVELOPING so
rapidly that it is difficult to keep up
with 1t and that is the poultry.
Nothing has seemed to make a whole
community or whole county, for
that matter, akin quite SO readily
as comparing notes on the egg or
eggless intentions of the family
hens. Culling has been the first
step, but some counties, Logan and
Saguache in particular, have already
gone so far as to form breeders
associations, and small shows. Sc
curing good feeding rations through
the local elevators. and have been
other steps. Two years ago the
poultry culling started in Idaho.
For this fall the poultry specialist
has already made contrasts with
the markets of Spokane and Port
land to receive and with the rail-
road to ship a traiuload of culls to
be taken out of focks during a Gull
ing week in October.