The Dolores star., 1922-02-24

stakes at the last Information
al Live Stock exposition In Chicago
You these were no ordinary swine but the
finest Chester Whites in the show. And this is
far from being Just an ordinnry girl. Here Is
girl who is young and pretty and well educated
and yet So Interested In hogs that she spends her
time breeding them, raising them and taking them
10 fairs and stock shows With her sister as help
er. she came to the Chicago show from Lnayen-
worth, Kansas, bringing her 20 hogs and taking
all the care Of them both the journey and nt
the shaw. When she led the grand parade into
the nrena on the big night Of the show she walked
In quietly with her gruntiug white pigs following
contcntedly behind her. There no shouting
nnd running and pounding when some Of the
men and boys came In Her pigs huddled close
beside her, for they knew where to find friend.
Miss Justine Mosse says she is fnrmer because
she loves to farm. Her eyes shine and her fnce
lights up when she talks about the chances for
woman a farm. For herself, she had worked
around ON her fathers place ever since she was
little girl. doing all sorts of things just as "A
boy might do them. Then she went away to col
iege 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 used to- So slowly, she came
to realize that the work she liked best was back
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 her.
Some people born with the love of farming
and the outdoors In them. And they are the
people to he farmers, they are the ones who sue
coed think lots of girls have this feeling, only
they afraid to try farming and most farmers
won't give them Il chance. AS matter of fnct
farming Is just easy many kinds of house
work Last spring I ploughed and planted and
cultivated corn and 1t wasn't hard at all"
Il want to tell the girl who longs to be a farmer
that she can be one If she tries Just make some
farmer give her chnnce and he'll soon She
VIII learn TO breed and raise and handle stock
better than most men. Ike the stock raising best
and | think do best at that kind of work. A
woman Just to know how to for ami
mails to get the best out of them. | condition
all our stock for the show and | feel of one
thing-no man can do 1t any better than | can
Miss Justine is not manager Of her fathers farm.
she is just helper on it. But there women
In her state, ten of them, who acting farm
managers salary. Many more women farm
owners, are running the place themselves and they
are just confident she is that can
succeed on farms.
within the last four years the number of women
farmers has increased enormously. not only in
Kansas but all the country. And in spite of
the TACT that the farmers Of the Northwest are
constantly saying ranch work is too heavy for
women, by women crowdng in to
prove that they and will succeed with It, In
past years most Of these women ranchers have been
widows Of rhnchers who died leaving the place In
going condition and it was only n matter of
xeepne 1t going. Even so, men talked about these
women as If they were very superior persons,
whom girl could hope to emulate. SO the door
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 reason for this. of course
Is cheap land And added to that Is the warmer
climate and the increasing possibilities for small
crops In some sections Miss Judith Hara when
she graduated from the New York School of Ap
piled Agriculture at Farmngdale Long Island
went to Taos New Mexico, where she is now run
wing her own ranch.
From Texas where many women have gone in
to the trucking business there comes word from
Miss Eleanor Hail. college woman, who states
that she Is making some two thousand dollars
year out of sheep and urges other women to &c
into the sheep business, which she considers par
ticulariy suited to women. Miss Hall works over
time during the lambing season. She takes better
care OF her ewes and lambs than many ole
rancher thinks worth while. 1t Is noticeable, how
ever. that she loses very few lambs. while lossei
sometimes run high among her neighbors. Ever,