Social and Labor Needs of Farm Women

Extracts from letters received from farm women in response to an inquiry "How the U.S. Department of agriculture can better meet the needs of farm housewives", with special reference to the provision of instruction and practical demonstrations in home economics under the act of May 8, 1914, providing for cooperative agricultural extension work, etc

1915

National Agricultural Library

Report Number 103

The present report deals only with letters which discuss the social and labor needs of farm women. Under these headings are included references to better roads, telephones, and mail service as important factors in the social life of the country, and to the long hours and methods of women's work, which, on many farms, increase isolation and leave little leisure or energy for recreation or intellectual activities. Later reports will deal with (1) the domestic needs of farm women, (2) the educational needs of farm women, and (3) the economic needs of farm women, as indicated by the writers of the different sections.