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


nj Live Stock exposition in Chicago.
You see these were ordinary swine, but the
finest Chester Whites in the show And this Is
FAR from being just 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 help
er, she came to the Chicago show from Leaven-
worth, Kansas, bringing her 20 hogs and taxing
all the Of them both the journey and at
the show. When she led the grand parade into
the on the big night of the show she walked
in quietly with her grunting white pigs following
contentedly behind her. There was no shouting
and running and pounding when some of the
men and boys came In. Her pigs hudded close
beside her, for they knew where to find friend.
Miss Justine Mosse says she is a farmer because
she loves to farm. Her eyes shine and her face
lights up when she talks about the chances for
woman on farm. For herself, she had worked
around her fathers place ever since she was
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 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
on the home farm About that time it happened
that she went home to help her father through
the summer She has been at 1t 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 the
people to be farmers, they are the ones who sue
ceed. think lots of girls have this feeling, only
they afraid to try farming and most farmers
won't give them a chance. AS a matter Of fact
farming Is just easy many kinds of house
work. Last spring 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
-
farmer give her 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. A
woman just seems to know how to care for ami
mails to get the best out of them. condition
all our stock for the show and feel sure of one
thing-no man can do it any better than can"
Miss Justine Is not manager of her fathers farm,
she is just helper on 1t. But there women
in her state, ten Of them, who are acting as farm
managers 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 one women 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 matter Of
keeping 1t going. Even So men talked about these
women as II they were very superior persons
whom 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 a start.
Women Throughout the country who are inter-
ested in farming, are now looking toward the
southwest, southwestern California and Arizona
where there is a 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 sections. Miss Judith Hara when
she graduated from the New York School of Ap-
piled Agriculture at Farmingdale, Long Island
went to Taos, New Mexico where she is now run
ming her own ranch.
From Texas where many women have gone in
to the trucking business there comes word from
Miss Eleanor Hall, college woman, who states
that she is making some two thousand dollars a
year out of sheep and urges other women to 90
into the sheep business, which she considers par
ticularly suited to women. Miss Hall works over
time during the lambing season. She takes better
care of her and lambs than many an 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