Show MRS SCOTT DURAND SUCCESSFUL FARMER By Dy Sarah Comstock When the farmers of Illinois gath gathered gathered ered last winter Inter at the tho farmers in institutes of o tho the state a surprise await awaited ed ell them Ulem Unsuspecting they arrived in buggy bug bu g carryall and automobile Leaving their spouses trustfully wait waiting waitIng ing log they entered the halls of learn learning big ing doubting not net but they th tIle should hear tho the accustomed discourse from front sage aage agricultural experts of their own sex Lox The Tue surprise that awaited them was In the form of or a woman and tho the ball bail with which she bowled bo lod them over was the statement that Ural in 1909 1009 she sho haul hall cleared from her farm farmand farmand and that every dollar of oC this liEs except for some Borne minor sales of corn was vas wade made from rom her herd of oC GO CO Holstein and Guernsey cows cons To their spouses OS OSIn In wagon wason and auto tho the farmers re rc turned a sadder and wiser wisor group It If Mrs Scott Durand had left her bel statement where it stood doubtless her ber hearers would have ve assumed the UIO creek on her land laud and an dismissed the matter maller But Dut she talked for a considerable le length of oC time and andas andas andas as the tho truth gradually dawned that her ber profits lay lar in the uprightness of o oher her band bantI of cows not nol In a di dl diluted diluted cole cede of honor the thc audience waxed intent Before Defore adjournment adjourn mont Mrs Durand Durau had shown these farmers what hat a modern model dairy dalr run on ona onu ona a u scientific and sanitary basis Is l it appeared less whimsical than Just that Chicago joyfully jo full gives 15 5 ceuLa a quart for Mrs Durands milk Mrs Scott Durand of o Illinois pro progressive enterprising prosperous pro is 18 isa isa a significant example She Is but butone butone butone one of at an au army of women who aro are tussling with ith the soil train from the Irrigated gated apples of Oregon Or gon to the rock rockbound rockbound rockbound bound potatoes of Maine Tho The lady 13 is taking up the tho land Hero she pots pot and pampers a crop of oC c un until it ears cars out there thore she wheedles a flock ot of o hens henD Into laying again she so her ber bees to hive or tempts her pigs to Christmas plumpness Perhaps who knows it Is to be ire the tho hand of the Indy lady which shall shaH eventually lead back bacle to nature this world Colliers Weekly |