WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE 



ally embodied, I am happy to include here several 

 letters of uncommon point and value — letters re- 

 ceived within a month from women who are en- 

 gaged now in farming or allied occupations. Miss 

 McC, mentioned above, after speaking of the 

 necessity for capital for a woman owning her own 

 farm, writes: 



"Among the women in our profession whom I 

 have met, those who own their own farms and raise 

 fruits and small truck, or who have a greenhouse, 

 seem to be most successful. Perhaps because this 

 is my special line, I have paid more attention to 

 the successful women in it. As to the avenues 

 open to women, there is no limit, especially if she 

 has capital for her own farm. She may make a 

 success in any line of the big vital profession of 

 agriculture she may especially be interested in. 

 A woman's one handicap in the field of agriculture 

 may be when she is a wage-earner in it. 



"I am relating a personal experience in Ten- 

 nessee. I wrote to the man in charge of the 

 Smith-Lever work in that State, applying for a 

 position and stating my training and experience. 

 His reply was that my training was all that was 

 required, and he felt from my recommendations 

 that I was as competent as any man with like ex- 



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