The Idaho recorder., 1922-03-03


stakes at the last Information
a Live Stock exposition In Chicago
fou see these were ordinary swine, but the
hnest Chester Whites In the show. And this Is
Tar from being just ordinary girl. Here Is
girl who In young and pretty and well educated
and yet 50 Interested In hogs that she spends her
time breeding them. raising them and taking them
to fars and stock shows. With her sister as help.
or, SHE came 10 the Chicago show from Leaven-
worth. Kansas. bringing her 20 hogs and taking
MI The care OF them both the journey and at
the show. When she led the grand parade into
the arena ON the big night OF the show she walked
In quietly with her grunting white pigs following
contcntedly behind her There was shouting
ana running and pounding as when some OF the
inen and boys came In Her pigs huddled 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 ON 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
iege aud began TO think about vocation for her
self The work other girls were doing seemed
very monotonous and duh after the change and
variety she was used TO- So slowly she came
10 realize that the work she liked best was back
en the home farm About that time II happened
that she went home To help her father through
the summer, She has been at It ever since.
Lots OF girls ought to bc doing this kind OF
work. says Miss Justine when you talk to her
Some people born with the love of farming
aud the outdoors Ia them And they are the
people 10 be farmers, they are the ones who sue.
eeed think lots of girls have this feeling only
they are afraid 10 try farming aud most farmers
won't give them chance, AS matter of fact
FARMING Is just as easy as nnny kinds of house
work. Last spring | ploughed aud planted aud
cultivated corn ana Il wasn't hard ut all,'
Il want 10 tell the girl who longs to be farmer
that she can be one II she tries Just make some
Turner give her chance and he'll soon see. She
VIII learn TO breed and raise and handle stock
better than most men. like the stock raising best
and think do hest at that kind OF work
woman Just seems To know how To care for AMI.
Inals 10 get the best out of them, l condition
Ill eur stock for the show aud feel sure Of one
thins--no man can do 1t any better than l can"
Miss Justine ls not manager OF her fathers farm
she is Just helper on II. 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 she is that women cnn'
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. Aud In spite of
/, he fact that the farmers of the Northwest are
constantly saying ranch work Ia too heavy for
prove that they can and will succeed with Il. In
iast years most Of these women ranchers have been
widows of ranchers who died leaving the place In
IA going condition and Il was only matter OF
keeping II going Even so, men talked about these
women as II they were very superior persons
whon no girl could hope To emulate So the door
was closed and kept closed la the woman farm
helper she could not get the chance for a start
womer throughout the country who are inter
es,ed Ia farming are looking toward the
southwest. southwestern California and Arizona
where there Is chance fer women Ia get started
with limited capital. The for this OF course
Is cheap land. And added 10 that Is the warmer
climate and the increasing possibilities for small
crops In some sections Miss Judith Hara when
abe graduated from the New York school of An
piled Agriculture at Farmngdale. Long Island
went to Taos. New Mexico. where she Is now run
ming her ranch
From Texas where many women have gone In
Ia the trucking business. there comes word from
Miss Eleanor Hail. college woman, who states
that SHE is making some two thousand dollars m
year out of sheep and urges other women to 70
into the sheep business, which she considers mar.
hcuiarly suited To women. Miss Hail works over.
time during the lambing season. She takes better
care "a her ewes and lambs than many nm old
raaeher thinks worth while. IL Is noticeable how.
ever That she loses very few lambs while losses
s''n~'i'nes run high among her neighbors Every