454 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



REPORT OF WOMEN FARM MANAGERS' ASSOCIATION. 



(Mrs. Maude M. Griffith Wood.) 



At Tulsa, Okla., was born the second organization which 

 has to do exclusively with the interests of women farmers, viz., 

 the Women Farm Managers' Association, which is a national 

 organization. 



This unique organization is the direct outgrowth of the 

 influence of the Missouri Women Farmers' Club through the 

 efforts of its president, Miss Pearle Mitchell, and the interest 

 of Mrs. Clark Kelley of Devil's Lake, N. Dak. 



The Missouri Women Farmers' Club has been the subject 

 of much interest and comment, not alone in Missouri, but 

 throughout the United States. Women from various states as 

 well as persons interested in agriculture have written repeatedly 

 for our constitution and for information as to working plans 

 of the club. In many states numerous women farmers have 

 made themselves known. At Tulsa, Okla., during the con- 

 vention of International Congress of Farm Women, the women 

 farmers were given one whole program. At this time there 

 were women farmers present from nine states, and all seemed 

 anxious that some sort of a national organization be formed. 

 As a result, owing to lack of time only temporary organization 

 was effected and temporary officers elected, with the under- 

 standing that next year we would meet with the International 

 Congress of Farm Women at Wichita, Kan., and perfect a per- 

 manent organization. Mrs. Kelley of North Dakota was made 

 temporary president; Mrs. Belle v'D. Harbert of Magnolia, 

 Col., president of the International Congress of Farm Women, 

 temporary vice-president, and Miss Pearle Mitchell of Missouri, 

 temporary secretary. 



There were representative women from the following 

 states: Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, North Dakota, Michigan, 

 Colorado, California, Idaho and Arkansas. Many of these 

 women are very strong characters in their respective states 

 and are recognized as financiers. They also represent the 

 various lines of agriculture. Mrs. Fred Osborn of Ann Arbor, 

 Mich., is a prominent vegetable gardener and is the only lady 

 who is member of the National Vegetable Growers' Association. 

 She cultivates large tracts of celery just in the suburbs of Ann 

 Arbor and handles vegetables in wholesale lots. Mrs. Clark 



