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yet even with this wonderful machine bad butter is still marketed 

 and sour cream delivered to the caterer — for the need of the proper 

 woman behind it all. The lack of ice in many farm homes has made 

 the work more arduous, yet a case has been cited when this has been 

 overcome by daily churning, thus not allowing the cream to become 

 too acid, also being able, to market a good quality of butter. Again, 

 this woman was equal to making her conditions. 



Just how to stimulate the pride and knowledge of what really 

 constitutes good butter among many of our farm women is the most 

 difficult problem, especially as long as their products bring the same 

 price over the counter as the untiring efforts of women who offer only 

 a finished product. 



With all of this there is plenty of good butter being produced, 

 but we must realize that the greatest problem after all in the making 

 of only good butter is not so much the proper facilities, but always the 

 woman behind the butter. 



THE SMALL FARM HOME. 



(Mrs. A. J. Wilder, Rocky Ridge Farm, Mansfield, Mo.) 



There is a movement in the United States to- 

 day, wide-spread and very far reaching in its 

 consequences. People are seeking after a freer, 

 healthier, happier life. They are tired of the noise 

 and dirt, bad air and crowds of the cities, and are 

 turning longing eyes toward the green slopes, 

 wooded hills, pure running water and health-giv- 

 ing breezes of the country. 



A great many of these people are discour- 

 aged by the amount of capital required to buy a 

 farm, and hesitate at the thought of undertaking 

 a new business. But there is no need to buy a large farm. A small 

 farm will bring in a good living with less work and worry, and the 

 business is not hard to learn. 



In a settlement of small farms the social life can be much more 

 pleasant than on large farms, where the distance to the nearest neigh- 

 bor is so great. Fifteen or twenty families on five-acre farms will 

 be near enough together to have pleasant social gatherings in the 

 evenings. The women can have their embroidery clubs, their reading 

 club, and even the children can have" their little parties, without much 



Mrs. Wilder. 



