Missouri Women Farmers' Club. 451 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



(Miss Pearle Mitchell, Rocheport.) 



The Missouri Women Farmers' Club is celebrating its third 

 anniversary. From five members, timidly uniting for mutual 

 benefit, it has now twenty-five active, energetic women who 

 are earnest tillers of the soil. They are intelligently and profit- 

 ably managing their farms and are fullfilling the duties of citizen- 

 ship. The club members are not neglecting home or any work 

 that is peculiarly that of women because they have chosen the 

 profession of agriculture. Motherhood, home making and 

 philanthropy are inherent, and however full her hands and 

 time, the feminine nature will not allow a disregard of these 

 highest claims. 



The influence of the Missouri Women Farmers' Club has 

 found an echo in many states of the Union, which culminated 

 in November in an organization at Tulsa, Okla., during the 

 International Congress of Farm Women, of a national organiza- 

 tion of women farmers to be known as "The National Asso- 

 ciation of Women Farm Managers." I am constantly receiving 

 letters of inquiry regarding our club from individuals and the 

 press. All this means that women farmers have found their 

 place in the world's activities and are being recognized as among 

 those whose faithful attention to a chosen vocation has brought 

 success. 



The scholarship we have offered to the girl who will make 

 good in the study of agriculture has aroused much interest. 

 Other colleges have investigated its results and many inquiries 

 from young women come to me. 



The report of this club at the meeting of the Missouri 

 Federation of Clubs last year introduced us to that great body 

 of workers, and many were curious and interested in knowing 

 of this practical branch of woman's work. I have mentioned 

 a few of the things resulting from our organization, and you 

 'must hear of some things we have not done. We have not 

 reached the hundreds of women farmers in our State who should 

 be allied with our club. We have not shown the proper zeal 

 in regard to bringing the results of our year's .experience here 

 for discussion, which is necessary. Each one of us has not 

 added a name to the roll of membership as agreed upon last 

 year at our delightful round table. Is this lack of enthusiasm 



