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VOCATIONS FOR WOMEN IN 

 AGRICULTURE* 



I BRING to-day to this subject a mind glowing 

 with what lies around us in Michigan in the 

 autumn of 1920. Our county is one where diver- 

 sified farming is the rule. This year's crops have 

 rarely been equalled. While the hay crop was 

 light and the wheat promised well but was injured 

 by rust, the rye crop was good, the barley very 

 fine, also the late beans. The sugar-beets are the 

 best in the twenty-one years of beet-growing in 

 Michigan, and never were more magnificent fields 

 of corn. Saved by warm weather and delayed 

 September frosts, not before have we seen such 

 tall and even stalks by millions; never were the 

 ears larger or better filled than in the harvest of 

 1920. 



When one lives, as I do, on the edge of the 

 farms, one thinks of them often and of their vari- 

 ous aspects. To-day, in spite of the many troub- 



*A paper read Octqber, 1920, at Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 on the occasion of the opening of the dormitory for women students of 

 agriculture. 



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