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

lamb and its mother on Miss Halls ranch have in
dvidual and careful attention
Up in Kansas again you might have found for
a 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 am saying thar
they do it all the time and lot OF them aren't
dead from it yet. Nobody ever did houseWork
without lifting and lifting heavy things too
know what work on farm is and say that the
outdoor work is easier than the indoor work and
if anybody thinks it isn't let him just try"
Another of these rugged farm women is Mrs.
Jennie Conrad of Conrad, Indiana, breeder Of
spotted Poand-China hogs who thinks that
thousand hogs a 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 a chance at success, whether she has the
money to buy farm not. Mrs. Conrad says
women take naturally to stock handling and that
a first-class woman will excel any man at this
work. This is not only because she knows and
understands the care of young creatures whether
animal human but because she usually likes to
keep things clean. The cleaner any animal is
Infections This is just as true of pig as it is
of a 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 a 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
ovoro woman lie naturally q ScrIlbber. that she
doesn't have to be told to keep the barn white
washed and the cows tails scrubbed. Mrs. Con-
rad saws that farming is the coming business for
women, business with a great future.
In her same group, among the well-established
farmers must be mentioned Miss III. J. Wagner,
manager of stock farm in Florida and said to be
the highest salaried 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 observation-disclosures farm, but since
a great stretch of its rich meadow land Is ser
aside for a polo field and a barn-fu of handsome
little polo ponies work overtime at devouring feed
it is rather trick to make. this farm pay. Miss
Miller indeed is the first farm manager to make 1t
nav and she has done it by constant, painstaking
care. Her truck garden is not only a luxury It
pays for itself Her poultry department noteoniy
Feeds the big house and its many guests; 1t covers
most of its cost of upkeep by outside marketing.
When talking about the woman farmer Miss Miller
says:
"Women are splendid for live stock OF all sorts
and they are good truck and flower gardeners
Rut when it comes to general crops and land man
agement doubt if they are as 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, so few farmers
are ready to give them chance as general farm
helpers On the other hand there are not enough
women farm managers 20 meet the demand for
them. Here believe, is the biggest field OF work
omen to women today and it is a field, as yet, al
most uncharted"
And now comes to mind the question-"What
are the agricultural colleges doing Tor the girls