578 Missouri Agricultiu^al Report. 



Los Angeles, California. This has been done by a millionaire 

 philanthropist who believes in this vocation for our sex. 



Over two hundred acres have been purchased as a co-operative 

 farm for women in Sussex, England. The $10,000 necessary was 

 subscribed by women and the business will all be in the hands of 

 women. 



The last census showed 307,706 women farmers in America. 

 Many of these are in our own State, though as yet our club has 

 discovered but few of them. In time the woman farmer will awaken 

 to the benefits of organization and exchange of ideas. She will 

 come also to the farmer's convention and collect the knowledge 

 given out by experts, as does her neighbor of the other sex. 



We must all the time go in more for intensive farming, and 

 this many of our women are doing. I read the other day of a 

 Miss Smith who was annually realizing $2,000 on land that, before 

 she assumed charge, had yielded only $600 in ten years. 



We have evinced our earnestness by offering a scholarship in 

 agriculture for girls. Let us push this work until we have some 

 successful young women putting into practice the scientific methods 

 of farming, young women who are educated, trained farmers, and 

 will not have the hardships of pioneering, such as most of ours have 

 experienced. 



This kind of women's work is still in its infancy, but is in- 

 creasing every year, as women learn to know and appreciate the 

 independence and healthfulness of intelligent effort put into work 

 in the country. 



EXTRACTS FROM ADDRESS BEFORE THE WOMEN 



FARMERS' CLUB. 



(A. J. Meyer, College of Agriculture, University of Missouri.) 



Missouri is unique and original in a number of things; one 

 of these is your organization of women farmers. If my informa- 

 tion is correct, ours is the only state in the Union which boasts an 

 agricultural organization composed entirely of women who are not 

 only farmers in theory, but farmers in. fact. 



There is no particular reason why women should not manage 

 farms as well as manage any other business enterprise, and women 

 have shown themselves very successful in handling almost every 

 kind of business. I see no reason why girls who grow up in the 

 country should not remain in the country and find there as good 



