Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-02-17

al Live Stock exposition in Chicago.
You see these were no ordinary swine but the
finest Chester Whites in the show. And this IS
far from being just an ordinary girl Here IS
girl who is young and pretty and well educated
and vet so interested in hogs that she spends her
time breeding them, raising them and taking them
to fairs and stock shows. With her sister as hep-
er, she came to the Chicago show from Leayen-
worth, Kansas, bringing her 20 hogs and taking
all the care of them both on the journey and at
the show. When she led the grand parade into
the arena on the big night of the show she walked
Ia quietly with her granting white pigs following
contentedly behind her. There was no shouting
and running and pounding as when some OF the
9pen and boys came in. Her pigs huddied close
beside her, for they knew where to hnd frlenC-
Miss Justine Mosse says she is farmer because
she loves to farm. Her eyes shine and her face
lights up when she talks about the chances for
woman on a farm. For herself, she had worked
around on her fathers place ever since she was
q little girl, doing all sorts of things just as
boy might do them. Then she went away to col
lege and began to think about vocation for her.
self The work other girls were doing seemed
very monotonous and dull after the change and
variety she was used to. So, slowly, she came
to realize that the work she liked best was back
on the home farm. About that time 1t happened
that she went home to help her father through
the summer. She has been at it ever since.
"Lots of girls ought to be doing this kind of
work. says Miss Justine when you talk TO ner.
"Some people are born with the love of farming
and the outdoors in them And they are the
people to be farmers they are the ones who sue
coed. I think lots of girls have this feeling, only
they are afraid to try farming and most farmers
won't give them chance. AS matter of fact
farming is just as easy many kinds of house
work. Last spring 1 ploughed and planted and
cultivated corn andit wasn't hard at al"
81 want to tell the girl who longs to be farmer
tbat Sho hn Shn
farmer give her a chance and he'll soon see She
will learn to breed and raise and handle stock
better than most men. like the stock raising best
and / think do best at that kind Of work.
woman just seems to know how to care for ami
mails to get the best out of them. I condition
all our stock for the show and feel sure Of
thing-no man can do it any better than can"
Miss Justine is not manager Of her fathers farm,
she is just helper on it. But there are women
in her state, ten of them, who are acting as farm
managers on a salary. Many more women, farm
owners, are running the place themselves and they
are just as confident as she is that women can
succeed farms.
Within the last four years the number Of women
farmers has increased enormously, not only in
Kansas but all over the country. And in spite of
the fact that the farmers of the Northwest are
constantly saying ranch work is too heavy for
women, one by women are crowding in to
prove that they can and will succeed with it. In
past years most of these women ranchers have been
widows Of ranchers who died leaving the place in
a going condition and it only a matter of
keeping it going Even so, men talked about these
women as if they were very superior persons,
whom no girl could hope to emulate So the door
was closed and kept closed to the woman farm
helper she could not get the chance for start.
Women throughout the country, who are inter-
ested in farming, looking toward the
southwest southwestern California and Arizona,
where there is chance for women to get started
with limited capital. The for this, Of course
is cheap land. And added to that is the
climate and the increasing possibilities for small
crops In some sections. Miss Judith Hara when
she graduated from the New York School of APP
pled Agriculture at Farningdale, Long Island,
went to Taos New Mexico, where she is now
nng her own ranch.
From Texas, where many women have gone in
b the trucking business, there comes word from
Hiss Eleanor Hall, a college woman who states
that she is making some two thousand dollars
year out of sheep and urges other women to go
into the sheep business, which she considers par
ticularly suited to women Miss Hall works over
time during the Landing season. She takes better
care Of her ewes and lambs than many old
rancher thinks worth while 1t is noticeable, how
ever, that she loses very few lambs, while losses
sometimes run high among her neighbors. Every