No. 6. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 287 



very necessary for the women to be helped and taught along their line 

 of work and if the woman has got her share of help and encourage- 

 ment she can make the satisfactory, solid home that that farmer needs 

 for his rest and recreation when he comes in. I think it is just as 

 necessary for the woman to have some help and encouragement be- 

 cause her work is necessarily more confining than the man's. He goes 

 away from the farm and out to the stores and the town much of tener 

 than the wife does. It is that that causes the humdrum of farm life; 

 and so even if she is a reader she has no time to take along that line 

 and, as I say, life becomes more of a drudgery unless she has help to 

 see the beauty and sentiment of farm life. Now Avhile I think farm 

 life is the life to live I know a great many people think it is lonely, 

 but I would not exchange the farm life and kitchen for the city life, 

 and if we could get our farm men to see this and realize that their 

 own homes would be happier, what a blessing tljat would be. And 

 then we need to see that we have some help to care for these little 

 lives that are entrusted to their care; this child life and child nature. 

 Help them to teach them purity of thought and action. I see often 

 that we have lost sight of the high sense of honor that our fathers and 

 grandfathers had before us and it is because in this hurry day and age 

 we do not give the right care and the training to our children that we 

 should. We allow the cares and worries of the day to engross our best 

 thoughts. That is all wrong and I know that women will come out 

 to the institutes if they know that there is a woman speaker on the 

 force. I have been at institutes where they came to me and said, this 

 is the first time they had a woman speaker there and they hoped the 

 Department would never give an institute without a woman speaker. 

 And 1 think if the chairmen would ask to have one of their speakers 

 a woman on the force and send out good earnest workers who have the 

 interests of their sisters at heart that the institutes would be very 

 much improved and bettered and the u})lift of the farmer's home will 

 be accomplished in a much shorter time. 1 know there are men talk 

 along this line but not as many as they should have, and I think that 

 the women who can symi)athize with the Avomen and that have gone 

 through all that is required of the women on the farm, can reach the 

 women's hearts much more readily than the men speakers can, and I 

 think it is very necessary that they should be on the force. 



Now I have been told that some of the men do not care to have 

 ladies on the force with them. I don't know how true it is. I am 

 sorry if it would be, and I think that any woman that goes into this 

 work makes u]) her mind to adapt herself to circumstances and take 

 things as they come and will not do any fussing or grumbling if they 

 meet with any unpleasantness any more than the men. Of course, 

 they will have to accustom themselves to be ready when the team is 

 ready so that they do not keep any one waiting, and if the men feel so 

 disy)osed to shoAV them any little attention or help them along with 

 their luggage the women will be gi-ateful for it. If the women have 

 luggage they feel that they are capable of taking care of their own. I 

 think in that way the men will not object to women on the force, and 

 1 hope the day will come when there will be more ladies on the force. 



Mli. BRONG: Mr. Chairman, I hesitate at this time to introduce a 

 new subject but the question that I will ask can be answered in a few 

 words. The question is this: In our county — I suppose there are 

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