The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-02-23

lamb and its mother Miss Halls ranch have in
dividual and careful attention.
Up in Kansas again you might have found, for
goOdly number of years past Mrs. Theodore
Saxon of Topeka. She was not a college farmer.
but having run her husbands twO-sectiOn farm
for good many years she knew lot about hogs
and crops and cattle.
Mrs. Saxon always said ANY woman who can
do farm Homework, wash and all. do any
kind of farm work l ever came across" And when
someone said, as they always did, that women are
not good at lifting, she laughed, answering. I'm
not saying they ought to lift but am saying that
they do it all the time and a lot of them aren't
dead from 1t yet. Nobody ever did homework
without lifting and lifting heavy things too. l
Know what work farm is and say that the
outdoor work is easier than the indoor work and
If anybody thinks it isn't, let him just try
Another of these rugged farm women is Mrs.
Jennie Conrad of Conrad, Indiana a breeder Of
spotted POland-China hogs who thinks that a
thousand hogs year Is not too big an output for
her farm. Mrs. Conrad believes that the woman
who likes farming and knows about 1t ought to
have a chance at success, whether she has the
money to buy a farm or not. Mrs. Conrad saws
women take naturally to stock handling and that
a first-class woman will excel any man at this
work. This Is not only because she knows and
understands the care Of young creatures whether
animal or human, but because she usually likes to
keep things clean The cleaner any animal Is
Kept the less danger it runs from contagious or
infections. This is just as true Of pig as It Is
OF human being; they need to be kept Clean to
have their houses In sanitary condition and
clean. fresh land for their playground.
The United States Department of Agriculture ia
spending a great deal Of money right now to
teach farmers how to prevent intestinal worms in
hogs. The prevention is cleanliness and this Is
true not only with diseases of cattle but of chick
ems, even of turkeys. Mrs. Conrad argues that the
average woman is naturally a scrubber, that she
doesn't have to be told to keep the barn white
washed and the cows tails scrubbed. Mrs Con-
rad says that farming is the coming business for
women. a business with a great future.
In her same group, among the well-established
farmers must be mentioned Miss H. ]. Wagner
manager OF stock farm in Florida and said to be
the highest salaried woman farmer in this country
Also there Is Miss Eleanor S. Miller, manager Of
the famous Robert Bacon farm at Westbury Long
Island. This is observation-disclosures farm. but since
great stretch Of its rich meadow land is set
aside for polo field and a harmful of handsome
little polo ponies work overtime at devOuring feed
IT Is rather a trick to make this farm pay Miss
Miller indeed is the first farm manager to make it
pay and she has done II by constant, painstaking
care. Her truck garden is not only a luxury; 1t
pays for ITSELF Her poultry department not only
feeds the big house and its many guests II covers
most of its cost Of upkeep by outside marketing.
When talking about the woman farmer Miss Miller
says:
women are splendid for live stock of all sorts
and they are good truck and flower gardeners.
But when 1t comes to general crops and land man.
asement doubt II they are as interested as they
should be; certainly they do not do the work they
should. 1t may be that the lack of opportunity
has forced women to specialize. so few farmers
are ready to give them a chance as general farm
helpers. On the other hand there are not enough
women farm managers to meet the demand for
them. Here, believe is tho biggest field of work
open to women today and it is field, yet, al
most uncharted."
And now comes to mind the queston-"what
are the agricultural colleges doing for the girls