for October, 1920 



359' 



HELPING FARM WOMEN 

 FEED THE CITY 



To city folk, over whom the 

 threatened food shortage of 

 next Winter hangs like a black 

 cloud, the various ways in 

 which the New England branch 

 of the Woman's National Farm 

 and (iarden Association is bring- 

 ing producer and consumer to- 

 gether are indeed glad tidings. 

 The national organization 

 numbers about 2500, and dates 

 back seven years. It is the out- 

 growth of the enthusiasm 

 brought back from England by 

 Mrs. Frances King, of Alma, 

 Michigan, who formed the As- 

 sociation with the help of seven 

 other women equally enthusias- 

 tic, and who is still its national 

 president. 



One of the most important 

 functions of the New England 

 Farm and Garden .Association 

 of which Mrs. Geo. U. Crocker is 

 president, is to help the woman 

 to find an outlet for her eggs, 

 her canned vegetables and her 

 preserved fruit of standardized 

 size and excellence, always en- 

 couraging the women to pro- 

 duce the really worth-while 

 things for which there is a 

 ready sale in the cities. In 

 New' York there is a travelling 

 exhibit which goes out among 

 the farms and helps to stand- 

 ardize taste in tlie matter of 

 handiwork, which farm women 

 turn out in great quantities. 

 This idea will probably be used 

 in New England also soon. 



The farm and Garden Asso- 

 ciation is supplying this needed 

 education in exactness, also 

 pointing out to farmers and 

 farmers' wives that in handi- 

 work and in food the quality 

 of the product is of prime im- 

 portance ; that the package or 

 container should have an in- 

 dividuality of its own. and that 

 when both these things are 

 right and the price charged 

 makes due allowance for the 

 fact that the commissions of 

 two or more middlemen are 

 cut out by marketing directly 

 to the consumer, quite a profit- 

 able business should result. 



Furthering agriculture as a 

 vocation by offering scholar- 

 ships at State colleges and 

 other horticultural schools, and 

 helping women to secure posi- 

 tions for farm and garden 

 work, once they have been 

 properly trained for such posi- 

 tions, is a very important de- 

 partment of the association's 

 work. .A fund is raised for scholarships 

 (living expenses) at the .Agricultural Col- 

 lege in .Amherst, and already there are 

 ^ many applications for help next Winter, 

 How varied may be the vocational op- 

 ponunities for which a course at the 

 Massachusetts .Agricultural College fits, is 

 shown by some of the positions now being 

 held by girls who have taken such courses. 

 There are professional landscape gardeners 

 and florists, owners and managers of es- 

 tates, nurseries, poultry plants, dairy 

 plants, truck gardens and orchards, ex- 

 tension service workers in home economics 

 in boys' and girls' clubs, and secretaries 

 and' office managers for nurseries and 

 floricultural establishments. .An interesting 



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There is a lot more to painting 

 than buying the right paint. Of 

 necessity you have to start with the 

 rieht paint if you expect it to stay 

 right. 



Your neighbor on one side blames 

 the paint because it chalks off. The 

 one on your other side finds fault 

 with his because it peels. His 

 neighbor grumbles because he has 

 to paint so often. 



Listening to all this, you begin to 

 wonder if there is any good paint 

 made now-a-days ? Or, if anyone 

 knows any more, how to put paint 

 on ? To which let us promptly 

 answer that never was there better 



paint made, nor as many painters 

 who know how to really paint. 



But there's a lot more to good 

 painting results than just the paint 

 and the painter. It's because of 

 those other things that so many have 

 painting disappointments. 



To protect our customers froin 

 such we have just published a book 

 called The Happy Happening. It's 

 too costly a book to send out broad- 

 cast, so we ask that you include loc. 

 in stamps with your request for a 

 copy. 



Lowe's Paints and Varnishes 

 are sold by the one best dealer in 

 each town. 



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new lield is that of rural journalism, now 

 on the verge of wide development. Herbert 

 Hoover indorses the association most 

 heartily. "I want to send t(> you," he 

 writes, "a message of appreciation for ac- 

 complishing a task wdiich is both inspiring 

 and valualile. The con.stant war drain on 

 agricultural employment makes it neces- 

 sary that production be stimulated by the 

 utilization of new agencies, and I feel that 

 the Woman's National Farm and Garden 

 -Association can serve a very useful pur- 

 pose.'' 



In order to enlarge its scope, however, 

 and meet as effectively as it may, the pres- 

 ent critical situation in agriculture, this 

 organization feels that it must double its 



memliersliip. It believes that every woman 

 who realizes what food means to the world 

 today, should sign up for at least two 

 dollars' worth of support (one annual 

 membership) and send the sainc in to the 

 secretary, Mrs. N. F. Conant. at 4 Joy 

 street, immediately. — Boston Evening Trans- 

 crift. 



We have American gardens, English 

 gardens, French gardens, Italian gardens, 

 Dutch gardens, Japanese gardens. Has any 

 one ever heard of a Bolshevik garden? 



We know of no type of garden that breeds 

 unrest. Those who work with Nature find 

 contentment. 



