674 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



(2) As to Nutritive Values of Foods (fifteen niiiuites)— Arthur Goss, 



Director Afjricultural Experiment Station, Purdue. 



(3) As to tlie Dairy Cow and Her Products (fifteen minutes)— H. E. 



Van Norman, Professor Dairying, Purdue. 



(4) As to Diseases of Farm Animals (fifteen minutes)— R. A. Craig, 



Professor of Veterinary Science, Purdue. 

 Questions. 



In August, 1001, a woman's conference was held at the university. 

 Although informal in character, the following topics were earnestly diS' 

 cussed hy those in attendance: 



1. Needs of Farmers' Wives and Daughters. 



2, What can be Done for the Women of the Country? 



(a) By farmers' institutes? 



(b) By agricultural colleges? 

 S. Woman's Auxiliaries. 



(a) What they may accomplish. 



(Ij) Their relations to the farmers' institutes. 



(c) How they may be organized. 



This conference was closed by an address on the education of the 

 home maker by Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, of Cambridge City, Ind., who 

 was at that time Professor of Home Economics of the University of 

 Minnesota. 



The unanimous conclusion of the woman's conference was that the 

 institutes can and should be -more helpful to the women of the farm. 

 A general desire was expressed by the women in attendance for instruc- 

 tion at the institutes in domestic economy. As a result of this confer- 

 ence, woman's auxiliaries to the farmer's institutes have been organizecj 

 in a number of the coimties. In several of the counties these auxiliaries 

 jiold independent sessions for home makers— usually at the time of the 

 annual institutes. In other cases these auxiliaries take charge of one or 

 piore sessions of the regular institute. 



It is gratifying to be able to state that the women of the farm are 

 taking a notable interest and active part in the farmers' institute w^ork 

 throughout the State. Several women have served acceptably and effecr 

 tively as presidents of county institute organizations. They also serve 

 as vice presidents, secretaries and as members of executive committees 

 of the local institute associations. Some of the most earnest and success- 

 ful institute workers have been women of the farm. Women have been 

 regularly in attendance upon the annual conferences, frequently bearing 

 their own expenses. 



The importance of woman's work on the farm is coming to be more 

 fully recognized by farmers, themselves, and it is the purpose of the 

 general management to make the annual conference of institute workers 

 even more helpful to these women in the future than in the past. 



