River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-02-09


al Live Stock exposition in Chicago
You see these were no ordinary swine, but the
finest Chester Whites in the show. And this 10
far from being just ordinary girl here 10
girl who is young and pretty and well eaucateu
and yet 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
err she came to the Chicago show from Leaven-
worth, Kansas bringing her 20 hogs and taxing
all the care of them both on the journey and at
the show. When she led the grand parade INTO
the arena the big night of the show she walked
in quietly with her granting white pigs following
contentedly behind her. There was no shouting
and running and pounding as when some OF the
and boys came in. Her pigs huddled close
beside her. for they knew where to find FRIEND.
Miss Justine Mosse says she is farmer because
she loves to farm Her eyes shine and her race
lights up when she talks about the chances Tor
woman on farm. For herself, she had worked
around 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 ana
variety she was used to. So. slowly, she came
to realize that the work she liked best was PACK
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.
work" says Miss Justine when you talk to her.
.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 VINO sue
coed. / think lots of girls have this feellng only
they are afraid to try farming and most farmers
won't give them chance AS matter OF lacl
farming is just as easy as many kinds of house
work Last spring 1 ploughed and planted and
cultivated corn and it wasn't hard at all
81 want to tell the girl who longs to be a farmer
that she can be one f she tries Just make some
farmer give her chance and he'll soon see she
will learn to breed and raise and handle stock
better than most like the stock raising best
and / think l do best at that kind OF work.
woman lust seems to know how to care for AMI
mails to get the best out of them. l condition
Gil 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 a helper on it. But there are women
in ner state, ten of them, who are acting as farm
managers on salary Many more women, farm
owners, are running the place themselves and they
are just as confident she is that women can
succeed on 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
prOye that they can and VIII succeed with It, In
mast wears 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 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 a start.
Women throughout the country, who are inter-
ested Iii 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 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 APP
piled Agriculture at Farmingdae, 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, a college woman, who states
that she is making some two thousand dollars
year out of sheep and urges other women to so
into the sheep business which she considers par
tcularly suited TO women. Miss Hall works over
time during the lambIng season. She takes better
care of her ewes 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