Report of Missouri Farmers' Week. 591 



of the bulletins which are used in institute work throughout the 

 province. Miss Ravenhill spoke on "Our Daily Bread" and 

 "Physiological Growth and Development in Childhood and Adoles- 

 cence." Both subjects proved to be of great interest to the moth- 

 ers present. Mrs. Howie of Wisconsin, who is recognized in the 

 dairy world to be an authority, gave some very interesting talks 

 on the subject. I might add, too, that Mrs. Howie lives on a farm 

 and operates her own dairy. A Mrs. Cooper of Manitoba, Canada, 

 a real farm woman, spoke of "Poultry on the Farm." She did not 

 look the part, but proved to be a well-educated, practical woman 

 who has made poultry a specialty along with various other duties 

 of wife and mother. She has made a very systematic study of the 

 subject and is quoted as an authority throughout her province. 

 She spoke at length on the care to be used in selecting birds to be 

 retained in the poultry yard. Told how she studied the disposi- 

 tions of the hens and could select the ones which would make good 

 mothers. She had some diminutive coops and devices which she 

 found to be very satisfactory. One of these was a coop or rather 

 nest, with a trapdoor through which the eggs would fall into a 

 lower section, thus doing away with the trouble of the hens eating 

 the eggs. 



Dr. Worst followed some of these demonstrations with figures 

 showing the cow and hen from a financial standpoint, giving some 

 very interesting results or rather sums, which could be reached, if 

 all the earnings from one good cow or a dozen good hens were placed 

 in a savings bank for family reserve. I think it was possibly Dr. 

 Worst, too, who in speaking of educating the "Boy on the Farm" 

 along with many other good things, insisted there should be an 

 agricultural education for the young and an agricultural demonstra- 

 tion for the old. 



We can not attend the lectures given here at the Agricultural 

 College each year during Farmers' Week without realizing that an 

 effort is being made along these lines. But I do think that 

 Canada is doing more in some ways to educate her people in agri- 

 culture than we are doing in the United States. 



The government there is spending large sums of money in 

 promoting agriculture. There is the Minister of Agriculture for 

 the Dominion and a minister for each individual province, and more 

 is being done in each province than is being done in our states. 

 The feature of this work that appealed to me most was the 

 interest that is taken in institutes for women and in the systematic 



