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in the Sunday school. Being gifted in music, she also has a number of 

 music pupils. Then she is treasurer of the State Federation of Women's 

 Chilis and President of the Missouri Home Makers' Conference. 



A SCOTLAND COUNTY FARM — MRS. R. B. D. SIMONSON. 



One of the three executive members of the 

 Women Farmers' Club is Mrs. R. B. D. Simonson, 

 wife of Prof. Simonson, superintendent of schools in 

 Jefferson City. During the winter she keeps house 

 in Jefferson City, but spends the spring and summer 

 season on the 160-acre farm which she bought in 

 Scotland county, Missouri, in 1901, the same year 

 she sold an Illinois farm. Of the farm and its oper- 

 ation Mrs. Simonson writes, "Until March, 1901, 

 this farm was leased to tenants. At that time my 



Mrs. Simonson. ■ 



son moved on the place, and since Prot. D. H. Doane, 

 of the Department of Agriculture, was secured to plan the farm opera- 

 tions, the place is known as United States Demonstration Farm No. 2. 

 My son and myself, with the co-operation of Prof. Doane, have been 

 operating it less than a year. During this time our energies have been 

 principally directed to preparing for future returns, by repairing build- 

 ings and fences, planting crops designed for the improvement of the soil, 

 and securing stock to dispose of a large amount of forage grown on the 

 place. Consequently we have thus far realized no financial returns. Last 

 year we raised Texas Red Rust Proof oats, corn, hay, soy beans and cow- 

 peas, the last of which especially produced abundantly. We have thirty 

 acres in rye, in which clover has been sown. The old meadow, which 

 consists of about twenty-six acres, has been plowed up and will be planted 

 to corn. The remainder of the cultivatable land, comprising between 

 55 and 60 acres, will, for the 1911 season, be devoted to oats, cowpeas, 

 corn, rape and potatoes. The foregoing constitutes the plan of rotation 

 for next year. The rye and clover take the place of the oats, corn of the 

 cowpeas and meadow, oats of the corn and cowpeas, etc., of the first 

 year. ' ' 



From this it will be seen that this farm — a Missouri woman farmers ' 

 farm — is being scientifically managed, soil building crops playing a 

 prominent part in the rotations as planned. 



PROM CITY TO COUNTRY — MRS. CORA F. SHEWELL. 



Another member of the Women Farmers' Executive Board is Mrs. 

 Cora F, Shewell of St. Louis, who has a small farm near Shewell Sta- 



