The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-10
WOMEN KEEP UP
 THEIR COURAGE
Ccontinusd from rags l.,

tCOntinusd from Fass io
 we planned to furnish our house shIs falI," Mrs. '. V. Hoes, placid, taorid and plump, declared with . slight lisp, as slls surveyed tho un- pretentlous but scrtipulously clean furnishings of her best parlor. we are getting by on the milk we sell but 1t is harder and harder to set q table for my family Of seven. And we'll get no furniture. lt took all our cash Co buy seed for this crop and now it is burned to Q crisp"
 Baked to Get Money
 Realizing that burned crops mean no cash for the winter, Mfrs. B. R. Jones set about baking for friends and noighbcEs to supply the cash needs of her family of four and her mother and father who live with her. Three times Q week she delivers her baked delicacies to Aberdeen customers and occasionally supplies . wholesale order for . church sup- per or lodge picnic. Tt was ell I could do," she sald, you just can't sit and wait for prosperity. We lost our farm several years ago and we rented this one. We hoped 1t would make something for us this year."
 CfasshOppers Everywhere
 0rasshoppers gwarmed around us as Mrs. Robert Wheeling and I crossed what was once Q wheat field and is now just dried grass on the 320.acre farm her family home. steaded in 1879. "Our windmill and pump have worn out" she said, smoothing out . freshly ironed blue and white print. land with no crop this year we can't repair 1t. That means no running water the rest of the summer and next winter. We'll have to carry every drop from the pump outside, but women are used to tnconveniences and I'll manage" Last year l canned 300 quarts of fruit and vegetables for our table" Mrs. Henry Strand said, land this year I can't can . spoonful"
 How Neighbor ProspePed
 I inquired about the apparent prosperity of . neighbor whose newly painted house, TIiended fences, large barns and silo I had passed. Insurance company" was Mrs. Strands answer, with some bitter. ness. "The insurance companies have bought up c lot of farms" she said, improved them and are trying to sell them. They never let the old owner remain as . tenant"
 i've not worked in the fields since the baby came" Mrs. L. F. Matthews said, "but can if I have to-" She shook some wilted Shrubbery beside her unpainted house and grass. hoppers Swarmed down to the ground. "So thick you couldn't stick . pin down." she observed.
 Tn Former German Section
 Mrs. John II. Kepke, Q small, gray haired woman, spotless in . pink ruffled frock, lives in the formerly prosperous German section in the southeastern part of the county. Her family homesteaded in 1881 and until c few years ago lived in plenty. She woved one hand ct the dried ponds, parched fields and the cattle huddled in the scant shade of c barn.
 We had % many obligations last year." she said, i've had to give myl husbands mother and sister on equity in our farm. We had hopes of . crop this year to pay of that obligation.
 "Now Tin racking my brain to think of substitutes for meat. We just can't afford to buy 1t. get hungry for c bit of fresh fruit, but we Just make less 90 farther-a c woman always knows how to do that. I mean 6 farm woman"