80 The Bulletin. 



I asked for 70 bulletins on bread-making. I went before a teachers' institute 

 and asked how many teachers would agree to teach bread-making in their 

 schools. Thirteen out of 75 agreed, and they taught the principles of bread- 

 making in the schools exactly as we teach the principles of music before we 

 begin to practice. On a Saturday some one loaned a kitchen, and every girl in 

 a class of ten brought a pint of flour. Yeast was furnished. While the bread 

 was rising they experimented with making soda biscuit, baking-powder biscuit, 

 watfles, muffins, and everything you had to raise. Then the bread was baked, 

 and they had for their dinner what they had made in the way of battercakes. 

 They went home with a lesson they would use about twenty times to any other 

 lesson in the course. About two weeks later they wrote a composition on 

 bread, its place in the dietary, the value of good bread, etc. 



Girls must be trained along the line of home-making. If a girl wants to 

 be a trained nurse she must have a certificate; if she wants to be a stenogra- 

 pher or a bookkeeper she must take a business course; but she undertakes to 

 make a home with no knowledge of the work. Our courts are filled with ap- 

 plications for divorce. The other day I asked, in a meeting, how many 

 women raise fine chickens. Dozens of hands went up. I asked how many 

 took a poultry journal, and all took one. I asked how many knew how soon 

 a chick should be fed, and all knew. Then I asked how many mothers were 

 there, and how many mothers' magazines were taken. Just three women 

 took a mothers' magazine. Not one of them had a conception as to how soon 

 a child sliould be fed. Di\ Hall said that the mental and physical life of a 

 child is determined in the first five years of its life. He said that many 

 children have their health ruined before they have been in the world twelve 

 hours. I declare to you that when a man comes hungry into his home, 

 where his wife performs beautifully on the piano and where she converses 

 beautifully, he is not pleased with any of these things; he is not satisfied 

 until he is fed. 



Woman's work should be the making of the home in its true sense. Woman 

 Is the custodian of her family by her knowledge of food values, of health, 

 of sanitation. If women come intelligently to men and talk about the home, 

 there is absolutely nothing that the men of North Carolina will not grant to 

 the women. As the mother, as the wife, as the daughter, woman cannot ask 

 for anything, at least in this State, that will not be granted her ; and I trust 

 that she is going to ask largely in the interest of the home. The women are 

 our educators, and if we will educate our girls to believe that the very highest 

 vocation in life for the woman is home-making, we may hope for great results. 

 The life has been hard, but I don't believe either the woman or the man has 

 been to blame. It has been simply a question of ignorance on the part of the 

 woman as to the kingdom which it is her privilege to rule over. Reduce the 

 work to a science. Take from it the drudgery, and there is nothing in the 

 world she would rather do than make a home for a good man. Everything 

 goes to prove that whatever she may train herself to be, the time does come 

 when she is willing to yield it all for the joy of home-making. 



I trust that every farmers' institute in North Carolina will always have a 

 women's institute in which every subject pertaining to women's work in the 

 farm home is going to be discussed. I trust that we are going into the rural 

 schools and bring about this reformation of training our children for life in 

 the country, not life in the city. 



PRESIDENT SHUFORD'S ADDRESS. 



The average North Carolina farmer in 1912 is more prosperous, more pro- 

 gressive, and more aggressive than he has been for years. If he were not 

 more prosperous, he would not be more progressive. 



The farmer has been able to realize more for his products as a whole, and 

 while profits have not been as great as most consumers think, on the one hand, 

 on the other, the farmer has not received as large a proportion of the advance 

 as he thinks he is entitled to. However, new methods and better farming 

 have put new life into their work. 



Agriculture, however, is not yet as profitable as it should be. There has 

 been no carefully collected data in North Carolina on the subject, still I would 



