Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1922-02-16

lamb and its mother on Miss Halls ranch have in
dividual and careful attention.
Up In Kansas again you might have found for
q gOodly number of years past, Mrs. Theodore
Saxon of Topeka. She was not 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 hOusework, wash and all, can do any
kind of farm work 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 saying that
they 90 1t all the time and lot of them aren't
dead from it yet Nobody ever did housework
without lifting and lifting heavy things too. l
know what work farm is and 1 say that the
outdoor work Is easier than the indoor work and
II 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-Chlna hogs who thinks that a
thousand hogs year Is not too big output for
her farm. Mrs. Conrad believes that the woman
who likes farming and knows about it ought to
have chance at success, whether she has the
money to buy farm or not. Mrs. Conrad says
women take naturally to stock handling and that
a first-class 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
infections. This is just 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 Is
spending 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 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, business with a great future.
In her group, among the we-established
farmers must be mentioned Miss H. ]. Wagner.
manager of stock farm in Florida and said to be
the highest salared 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 Northumberland farm but since
a great stretch of it's rich meadow land is set
aside for q polo field and barn-full of handsome
little polo ponies work overtime at devouring feed,
1t is rather trick to make this farm pay. Miss
Miller indeed is the first farm manager to make it
pay and she has done 1t by constant, painstaking
care. Her truck garden is not only luxury; it
pays for itself Her poultry department not only
feeds the big house and its many guests; it
most of its cost of upkeep by outside marketing.
When talking about the woman farmer Miss Miller
says:
"Women splendid for live stock of all sorts
and they good truck and flower gardeners.
But when 1t comes to general crops and land man.
agement doubt If they are 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, 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 the biggest field Of work
open to today and it is a field, yet, al
most uncharted."
And comes to mind the questOn-"What
are the agricultural colleges doing for the girls