WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE 



remember that this was nearly seven years ago — 

 consumer and producer. Our motto was, and is, 

 "Thrift and Beauty." The work of the associa- 

 tion has met with a success undreamed of by its 

 founders. While the membership needs enlarge- 

 ment, for expenses are constantly increasing, the 

 value of the association is daily recognized. It is 

 unique in its field. Its national office, Stevens 

 Building, 16 North Wabash Avenue, Chicago, is a 

 centre of information for members and others, an 

 agency for employers and employed, and as busy 

 a meeting-place as there is in the country. I 

 speak of the Woman's National Farm and Garden 

 Association in detail, for the reason that it is the 

 only organization in this country devoted to offer- 

 ing help to women in agriculture and horticulture. 

 It is the organization which constantly and con- 

 sistently preaches the value of work on the land 

 for women, from both the economic and the per- 

 sonal standpoint; it is the organization which 

 would bring the pale stenographer, the teacher 

 who cannot and who should not teach, or the fine 

 teacher who has taught too long, into the fields 

 and gardens of this great land of farms and gar- 

 dens. I mention now a few names of members, 

 to show the varieties of their occupations. 



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