Show FARM WOMEN GET ATTENTION Agricultural Department Issues Four Pamphlets Dealing With Problems SYMPOSIUM OF OPINIONS Social Phase of Country Life Considered Chief Issue of Farmers Farmer's Wife Four pamphlets have just been Issued of ot agriculture agriculture rl ul- ul b by the federal department department a ture relative to farm tarm arm women and tho time problems they have to face tace and to overcome overcome overcome over over- come In order to make tho time most out of or their life In the time countr country The books contain pages each and each treats treat I of or a different phase of or tho the subject andIs and andis is published as a separate report al although although although al- al though all are aro sent in a group as an effort to cover COer the time one general subject efort The Tho sections in which tho the work IB is 11 divided arc Social and amid Labor Needs of ot Farm Women Domestic Needs of or Farm Women Educational Educational Needs of or Farm Women and Economic Needs of at Farm Women Copies have been re received re- re at the offices of oC tho the United States weather bureau In Salt I Lake and these have havo been di distributed among government gov gor- officials of the time state In an ef effort erfort of- of fort to give them as much publicity r as 3 possible Similar copies may be purchased purchased purchased pur pur- I chased at nt a nominal price from the tho United States department of or i ture t U re D. D F F. Houston secretary of or agriculture tune ture in October 1913 addressed letters leters to the housewives s of crop correspondents correspondents corre COrre- asking them to suggest ways In which the United Uniel States department of or agriculture could give more morA direct service to the th farm women of the lie United Unit ed States The Tho Inquiry was prompted b by ee the thc tolo following extract from a letter addressed to the tho secretary by Clarence Ciarence Poe Poo of or Raleigh N. N C. C in July uh 1913 Have Hae some bulletins for the farmers farmer's farmers farmer's farmers farmer's farm farm- ers er's wife as well wel as for the farmer him him- self seU Th The farm woman has been the thc most neglected factor In the tho rural problem and she has been especially neglected by b the national department of agriculture Compiled Front From Letters Letter These letters from Crom tho the department of agriculture brought replies from all allover allover al over tho countr country Not ot a state in the Union failed to bo ho represented in the time hundreds of letters loters received Some of or ortho tho time letters treated of or one phase of or the time general subject and some somo of others and this Inspired those making up the te re report report report re- re port to divide It Into four parts Tho pamphlets are made up large largely of ex excerpts excerpts ox- ox from the letters received from rom farm women In all al 2241 replies were received of these being either mere acknowledgements or statements to the effect that tho the writer was unable to give th the desired Information The Time social needs need of ot farm tarm om women n re receive re- re a major part of or the attention of oC those writing this angle anglo entering entering- Into all 1 of or the time other othor of the nUe ton One e woman oma writes rl that sh she has e b-e- been beJ J working on a farm Carm as S a farmers farmer's wife more moro than thirty years and never has had a vacation Some of or the tho letters leters are from secluded and out of cf e the wa way places which are ae to bo found in practically eVer every state Heartrending stories stonie are aro told of at tho the long dreary days when the children are in school chool and the hard harl perpetual grind when work is heavy ion on the farm One re remarks remarks re- re marks that she would rather Jve live in a city even though she was only able to eat about half the time on the salar salary her husband earned In town She said she would prefer to be half hal starved to going back back to the tho farm and Its drudgery Utah Woman View On the other hand some of tho the women tell tel of advantages In th the country country country coun coun- try and some of ot these are from roam the west A Utah Uth woman writes that in her community the schools are as good goodas as in a city and the entertainments are sufficient wholesome and uplifting An Idaho woman suggests the building of more country countr churches Some of the writers become emphatic In their declarations in regard to treatment treatment treatment treat treat- ment received An n Idaho woman tells that farmers In her community sold potatoes potatoe for 27 cents a hundred pounds paying 8 cents for tho time sack She Sho adds that they put slips of paper In the sacks asking that the consumer write what ho hE paid for tor tho the potatoes and that the tho answers received showed a varying price of at from 51 n to 2 2 a hundred pounds pounds Tho The same saro woman oman gives JIves other and asks that figures a government man Investigate the situation with Ith the prices paid and received and the cost of ot living living- and Interest paid S |