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myriad of " winged thoughts " eagerly awaiting 

 their human moment against the trap of the 

 " homesteader's requirement." 



Since there was not the smallest hope of official 

 encouragement, the only way of going on seemed 

 to lie in refusing to give up, so I did what I could 

 alone and very imperfectly. I had neither sufficient 

 capital nor experience to carry out my " women and 

 wheat " experiment in any other way than by teaching 

 my would-be women-farmers what to avoid, and to 

 give them the opportunity of learning by actually 

 working with the horses and implements on the 

 land. The double responsibility naturally needed 

 even more knowledge and training and patience 

 and endurance than the chronicled end of my 

 experiment, but over and over again I recognized 

 the splendid qualities I had always believed to be 

 in women, and I don't think a woman ever worked 

 on my wheat-land without discovering a finer 

 energy and a stronger and more independent Self 

 than she dreamed she possessed. 



But what is really wanted is such an experiment 

 in complete form : the average farm-plot, the 

 average farm- buildings of the prosperous farmer 

 with sufficient capital to prove the result of sugges- 

 tion, worked out on the best possible method of 

 increase ; the proof that, given sufficient capital, 

 .500 net profit can be made by any qualified woman- 

 farmer on three hundred and twenty acres of land 

 through demonstrating inch by inch and dollar 

 by dollar how it is made on one particular half- 

 section. It is easy to work out propositions on 

 paper, although if more were sketched out care- 

 fully in this manner finer results would be obtained 



