Report of Missouri Farmers' Week. 



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The preparation and cultivation of the soil are things that are 

 practical every-day problems. They are the things that are com- 

 mon, yet may be worthy of study in scientific methods. 



I feel that during my short time here as a student I have 

 gained a great deal of useful knowledge and when I return to the 

 farm, I am sure that I will be more capable than I should have been 

 if I had not attended the Agricultural College. Some few years 

 from now we hope to be able to prove to you the value of the special 

 training in an agricultural college by a demonstration of the girl 

 graduates who are living on Missouri farms. 



REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF FARM WOMEN 

 HELD AT LETHBRIDGE, CANADA, OCTOBER 



22 TO 26, 1912. 



(Miss Maude M. Griffith, Clinton, Mo.) 



I have spoken to the Missouri Home Makers' Conference of 



this International Congress of Farm Women 

 which convened in Lethbridge, Canada, last 

 October. I doubt whether I shall be able to 

 tell you much that is entirely different, but 

 possibly I can give you a more detailed ac- 

 count of this greatest agricultural meet on 

 record, for as you possibly are aware the 

 Congress of Farm Women was held in con- 

 nection with the International Dry Farming 

 Congress. The Congress of Farm Women 

 is a sort of auxiliary to the Dry Farming 

 Congress, and should you ask me why, I 

 could not do better than answer you in the 

 words of Harold Bell Wright, when he says : 

 "Look carefully into every great enterprise that is of value to the 

 world and you will find at the beginning of it some one reaching for 

 a dollar or its equivalent." The Jefferson Worth of this day is 

 Dry Farming Congress, which seems to have been able and willing 

 to foster this movement until it can care for itself in dollars and 

 cents. 



It was a great pleasure as well as privilege for me to be able 

 to represent the Missouri Women Farmers at this congress, for in 

 taking part of both farmers and farm women, a meeting of this 

 character should be doubly interesting to us. 



Miss Griffith. 



