B»« RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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An “Uplift” Farm Adviser 
The New Woman in a New Job 
[The following bit of good-natured vsar- 
•casm will be relished by many a farm 
woman who has been “advised.”] 
This has been a very strenuous week 
for me. I have been out in the country 
lecturing and teaching the “farmers and 
their wives how to produce more food, 
also how to save food and how to cook 
and do housework. 
Several experts and demonstrators 
have been over this territory ahead of 
me, and so I found most of the people 
somewhat enlightened. In fact, I found 
several farmers who were working hard 
and whose fields had been planted already, 
but I found quite a bit of land that was 
not planted. I remember one farmer 
who had a large bare field that he was 
cultivating almost every day but plant¬ 
ing no seed in the ground. I remon¬ 
strated with him, and he said he was 
Summer-fallowing and getting ready for 
Fall wheat. I explained to him the 
emergencies of our government and the 
necessities of the people in our cities and 
that time was precious this year. I tried 
to get him to sow the wueat at once and 
not wait till Fall. He seemed very ob¬ 
stinate, so I left him some bulletins and 
circulars and came away. 
We get very good food at some of the 
farmhouses. In fact, it seems quite too 
bad that common farmers should have 
such an abundance when city people have 
to pay so much for what they eat. I told 
some of these farmers that they should 
not eat potatoes while they are so high. 
I also found farmers’ wives quite ex¬ 
travagant with milk and cream. They 
use cream in coffee and upon berries and 
fruit. Some of them even feed milk to 
calves and pigs. Some of the^ women use 
butter in cooking, and even fry potatoes 
in butter. They will uot be allowed to 
do that long, however, for I have directed 
that hereafter they use lard for cooking 
grease. Many object to so doing because 
lard costs them 30 cents a pound at the 
store and the same storekeeper pays only 
24 cents a pound for butter, but I told 
them that the farmer is not to consider 
dollars and cents, but rather the require¬ 
ments of people in the city. It has 
rained most all the week, and many farm¬ 
ers have taken the weather as an excuse 
for keeping out of the fields. I succeeded 
in driving a few of them out, although 
they claimed that it would damage both 
land and crop to work when it was wet. 
I fear that it will take continued and 
persistent effort to make .some of these 
people do their bit. Perhaps if the gov¬ 
ernment would furnish the farmers with 
rubber coats they could accomplish more. 
Most of the ivomen refuse to follow 
my suggestions. I had quite a time teach¬ 
ing one woman how to make salad. She 
said that her people preferred plain cook¬ 
ing. and that she had so much to do with 
pigs, chickens and children that she had 
no time for complicated dishes. The sal¬ 
ad I was teaching her contained only 16 
ingredients, for some of which we had to 
send to town. I explained how much better 
it is to use a great variety of materials 
rather than run the risk of using too 
much of any one article and producing a 
scarcity of it. At one place I found a 
lot of strange plants growing in a fence 
cornel’. Upon inquiry I found that it 
was horse-radish. I informed them that 
this was a very nourishing food, and im¬ 
mediately stopped the other farm opera¬ 
tions and soon had the whole family 
digging and canning horseradish. The 
men objected and wanted to stay at their 
work in the hay field, but I told them 
that if they sold their cattle they would 
not need so much hay, and also that peo¬ 
ple needed beef more than they neeiled 
hay. One woman positively refused to 
leave her churning to help me gather 
mu.shrooms, which I wanted canned for 
the city trade. She said she did not 
know the difference between the different 
kinds of fungi, but I happened to have a 
copy of “Reeves on Fungus Plants” and 
from it I read to the woman and her chil¬ 
dren while they hunted the mushrooms. 
I had a very pleasant time in the woods, 
and as a result of our combined labors 
we gathered nearly three quarts of the 
toadstools, as the children called them. 
and thanks to my bulletin upon canning 
we soon had them in a can. 
.Several farmers have small plots of 
Alfalfa, a plant that I never saw before, 
and which I have read is rich in protein. 
I have been thinking that if we could find 
some way to utilize this protein as food 
for the farmers and their laborers much 
of the food that now goes to feed the 
farmers and their children coud be 
brought to the more discriminating peo¬ 
ple in the cities. 
I think I have done much good this 
week. I shall have no scruples about ac¬ 
cepting my salary tonight. But first I 
shall go to the best restaurant in this city 
and if my check cuts under four dollars 
I shall be fortunate. meuitabel. 
“ Conservation” 
I wonder if many of us, in our en¬ 
thusiasm to conserve foodstuffs, are not 
losing sight of a form of conservation 
of even greater import—health. Think¬ 
ing" that under no circumstances must 
anything be allowed to waste, I have 
added extra canning, etc., to my regular 
housework, poultry work, and gardening; 
worked early and late, much of the time 
with an ominous dizzy headache, which 
should have sounded a warning, and fin¬ 
ally brought on the inevitable break by 
weeding and picking strawberries in the 
hot sun. The long-continued rain had 
boosted my weeds till they were choking 
out my nice vegetables, and when a 
sunny day did come I attacked them vig¬ 
orously till late in the afternoon. Then, 
with the nation’s watchword in mind, I 
went after the luscious wild strawberries 
I knew were rotting in the meadow, in¬ 
stead of going to bed as I .should have 
done, and the result was exactly what 
might have been expected—I hardly 
know what special variety of collapse, 
but the kind that absolutely forbids sun¬ 
shine or stooping work for even five min¬ 
utes. Gocalness knows what will become 
of my garden or my fruit now; help is 
absolutely unprocurable, and I can do 
very little of the work myself. 
We are wondering if conservation of 
health and strength is not fully as es¬ 
sential as saving foodstuffs when one 
must choose between the two. Really 
it is a fair question if a large propor¬ 
tion of the apparent lavish waste of 
food in the country is a waste at all. It 
would cost, in many cases, much more 
than the food is worth to transport it 
to the city people, or the city people to 
it, and the country people have more 
than they can do conserving the more 
valuable foods. One country visit from 
a distant doctor would buy a bushel of 
strawberries, and the berries would con¬ 
tain many times the amount of real uu- 
tfition furnished in an equal money 
value in medicine. In any case, a fam¬ 
ily with an invalid woman at the helm 
is a poor asset to the country, either in 
peace or war, and hereafter it shall be 
the rule of this household to conserve 
health first and food next. Doctors and 
nur.ses are said to be badly needed at the 
front, and why use them needlessly here? 
Should not they, too, be conserved for 
the use of the army? 
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