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in advertising ! However, I think he was utterly sin- 

 cere in offering this opening to the women members 

 (present and also to-be) toward more systematic and 

 specific affiliation with the sub-organizations. The 

 name offered was criticized, but the movement was 

 met with considerable heartiness by the press, one 

 editor saying that there ought to be a thousand women 

 enrolled as members of the Association within two 

 or three years. Some few women objected to their 

 status. One said very positively that she would in- 

 fluence the local club to join the American Poultry 

 Association, if women were to go in on the same footing 

 as men, but she had " no desire to join any sewing 

 circle." Apparently, there was no one with immediate 

 interest and responsibility sufficient to push the move- 

 ment, as it has not yet rounded out to fulfillment, at 

 the present writing. It is mentioned here that women in 

 especial, among the Beginners, may know what is " in the 

 air." There is no doubt, as it seems to me, that women 

 poultry keepers as a body or an annex to a body, can get 

 all the recognition which they desire, if they manifest that 

 desire to those in power. There is no industry in the 

 country, probably, with which women are more closely 

 connected, or in which they have had more influence. 

 This seems to be quite generally admitted, and, as I read 

 the signs, I think the men of the American Poultry As- 

 sociation would prefer that the women come in " on an 

 equal footing," but as a separate Branch. However, 

 the American Poultry Association has, at the present 

 time, a goodly number of individual women members, 

 who, being in, and life members, are not worrying much 

 about the status of women therein ! 



