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THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF FARM WOMEN HELD 



AT TULSA, OKLAHOMA. 



(Miss D. Adella Blew, Montrose, Mo.) 



I assure you it was a great pleasure to represent the Mis- 

 souri Women Farmers' Club at the International Congress of 

 Farm Women. And I will take this opportunity to thank you 

 for both the honor and the privilege. The International Dry 

 Farming Congress and the International Congress of Farm 

 Women, together with the International Soil Produce Exposi- 

 tion, made the last week of October a great week for Tulsa, 

 Okla., and a splendid school of instruction for her thousands 

 of visitors and delegates. 



The most important of these, to us, was the International 

 Congress of Farm Women. 



I received many impressions and learned many things 

 which I would like to bring back to you. One is the great need 

 and value of the organization of our farm women. The Ameri- 

 can farm woman is not awake to her responsibilities nor living 

 up to her possibilities. The women of the European countries 

 have far surpassed us— they are most thoroughly and efficiently 

 organized in their efforts to promote better rural conditions. 

 Their organizations are ofTicially recognized by their respective 

 governments and oftentimes given financial aid and support. 

 The great European International Congress of Farm Women, 

 held at Ghent, Belgium, last year, was financed by the govern- 

 ment of that progressive little kingdom, and in a most splendid 

 way. Instead of taking the Congress to some large church or 

 auditorium — as we do in America — the government had erected 

 a number of spacious buildings and most splendidly equipped 

 them for the use of the International Congress of Farm Women. 

 Our president, Mrs. Belle v'D. Harbert, who attended this 

 congress at her own expense, representing the American Women's 

 Congress, told us she was simply amazed at what she saw and 

 learned. Instead of a few hundred delegates, as we have, their 

 delegation numbered into the thousands, and twenty different 

 nations were represented. 



We of the American International Congress of Farm Women 

 are hoping and believing that the time will come when our 

 congress will be officially recognized by our United States 

 Government and become a connecting link between its Depart- 



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