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333 W. 30th St., New York 
A Farm Woman’s Notes 
Back to the Farm.— If those city 
women who propose cominj? out into the 
country to do housework while we farm 
women take to the fields really Avish to 
help production, why do they not per¬ 
suade their men folk to buy farms? It 
would be pleasanter for them to cook for 
their own people, and cheering to us to 
see people moving into the empty farm 
houses that grow more numerous every 
year. The plain truth is that it is easier 
to get a living in the city, and everyone 
knows it. The other day I passed through 
a section of country on the train. The 
principal farm work going on was the 
drawing out of manure, for the ground 
was still stiff with frost on these Northern 
farms. Not a speck of green had yet ap¬ 
peared, and the few teams on the road 
plodded through mud. Fences needed re¬ 
pairing, and the muddy brown fields must 
soon be worked. Early April does not 
paint farming in very attractive colors 
to the passerby. And yet I could not 
help feeling that those farmers, wallow¬ 
ing in mud and manure aud bravely at¬ 
tempting their season’s work, most of 
them short of help, and many working 
daily beyond their strength, Avere worthy 
of better aid than reams of advice and 
carloads of city girls for help. Life would 
look brighter to those farmers if they 
were sure of a reasonable profit this year, 
instead of a probable call at the bank for 
credit to pay feed bills. Farmers do not 
want credit. I believe in most cases the 
idea of farm loans and credits is all 
wrong. When a business gets so bad 
that it must be propped up by borrowing 
ahead of what it earns, there is something 
wu’ong. 
A Vital Need. —In some way money 
must be made to flow back to the land. 
It Avill not help to raise the standard of 
country living to rob it of the district 
school. Country people do not want their 
children brought up under village influ¬ 
ences. Better use every possible means 
to improve the district school and give it 
first-class teachers. We believe that those 
are un-American and undemocratic in 
authority on educational matters their 
niethod of improving rural schools. Weak 
(liijtricts should he built up instead of 
being wiped off the map. 
Organization Needed. —Farm organi¬ 
zation should he encouraged. The press 
insults farmers when it hints that such 
organizations are got up by a few farmers 
who wish to elbow themselves into politics 
and get some of the plums that are drop¬ 
ping so freely nowadays. But farmers 
understand the reason for the attitude of 
the press. They cannot expect men of 
other occupations to do their business 
managing for them. One of the advan¬ 
tages of country living is that people are 
somewhat isolated and have the opport- 
uity to think things out according to their 
own best .iudgment. So farmers must 
stand on their own feet and demand what 
seems to them fair profits. It is only by 
the strength of organization that farm¬ 
ers can grapple with those who profiteer 
on farm products. There is money enough 
in the Ignited States to buy food for every 
one and let farmers have enough to keep 
them on the farm and attract others to 
the country. American enterprise out¬ 
does itself .sometimes and needs a firm 
and restraining hand to guide it. The 
nation, the world, seems to he in dire need 
of leaders; men who are broad-minded 
enough to see the truth and cajiable of ac¬ 
tion. 
F’arm Compensatio.ns. —'Farming is a 
good business, a wonderful occupation. 
There would not he much pleasure in haul¬ 
ing manure along a city street where well- 
dre.ssed crow'ds sniffed at your load and 
eyed your homely clothes with amusement. 
The rattle of street cars, the arrogant 
suort of automobiles, would not he very 
attractive music, nor would a landscape of 
houses, shops and people be especially 
pleasing to the eye. But out on his own 
acres the farmer catches the scent of 
budding trees. No artist that ever lived 
has painted scenery in colors such as he 
sees every day ; meadow larks joj’fully re¬ 
mind him it is “Spring o’ the year” ; blue¬ 
birds, the emfilem of happiness, teach him 
to look on the bright side, and even tlie 
little 'brown sparrow keeps telling him 
“Sweet, sweet, sister’s calling.” aud, sure 
enough, there she stands in the doorway, 
calling him to dinner, only it may be his 
wife or daughter. jMo.st farmers like their 
occupation and many other people would 
like to live on a farm, but (lare not give 
up paying city jobs. The price of feed and 
of machinery is enougli to frighten away 
any would-be f.armer. Now is our oppor¬ 
tunity to think carefully, to act wisely, 
not for the profit o.f someone else, nor yet 
for ourselves exclusivelv, but for the good 
of all. 
Need of Fresh .\in. — A read<“r from 
Bloomiiigdale, N. Y.. after reading our 
story of a day, asks wliy the door was left 
open before retiring. He .says. “Oui' 
kitchen door came open some time in the 
night a few weeks ago, and everything 
was frozen solid when I got up. Plants, 
milk, tea-kettle, bread in the pantry and 
even the water tank. It wasn’t very 
cold either, only 18 below zero. This may 
seem cold to some folks, hut IS looks 
warm ‘beside 45 and 50 and even 50 
once.” Our own experience of a kitchen 
door inadvertently left unfastened and 
blowing open in the night was similar, 
though not so serious, as there was a low 
coal fire in tlie range. The cistern pump 
has never rallied from the freeze, for it 
“loses its prime” and requires 50 strokes 
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DEERE 
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T he cost of hai^esting your grain depends much upon the binder. 
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