UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 





, BULLETIN No. 719 



Contribution from the Bureau of Markets 



CHARLES J. BRAND, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



August 29, 1918 



WOMEN'S RURAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR 



ACTIVITIES. 



By Anne M. Evans, 

 Investigator in Women's Rural Organizations. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Women's rural organizations are numerous 

 and varied 



Organized effort of women develops home 

 life 



Country women cooperate for broader agri- 

 cultural opportunities 



Farm women's organizations promote com- 

 munity life in the country 



Page. 



WOMEN'S RURAL I ORGANIZATIONS ARE NUMEROUS AND VARIED. 



The rural telephone, better roads, the automobile, and. rural tree 

 dehvery have greatly facilitated communication in rural districts. 

 Women whose homes are on the farms are taking advantage of the 

 improvement in means of communication and are endeavoring in an 

 organized way to further the development of every phase of activity 

 which will mean better home life on the farm, broader and bigger 

 agricultural opportunities for the future, and an ideal rural com- 

 munity life. 



Organizations have been small and simple, but they are permeating 

 country life. For example, in one Southern State having three- 

 fourths of its land area in farms there are over 500 women's rural 

 organizations. The organizations represented are: The Homemakers' 

 Clubs, the Parent-Teacher and School Improvement Associations, 

 the Daughters of the Confederacy, the Cooperative Clubs, the Eastern 

 Star, the State Federation of Women's Clubs, and the Woman's 

 Christian Temperance Union. Li addition there are a number of 

 ladies' aid and missionary societies, and neighborhood and family 

 clubs not belonging to any of the county or State organizations. 



1 All organizations located in places of less than 2,500 inhabitants are considered as "rural, 

 in accordance with the definition of rural territory adopted for the Thirteenth (1910) Census. 



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