The Farm Woman's Problems

1920

National Agricultural Library

U.S. Department of Agrculture

Department Circular 148

In this circular may be found data with interpretations relating to the work and problems of 10,044 farm women in the Northern and Western States, with an indication as to how some of these problems are being met through the aid of home-demonstration agents working in cooperation with groups of farm women.

Before agriculture and rural life can reach its highest development the farm home and the rural community must be made as efficient, as attractive, and as satisfying to the whole family as the farm is to the farmer. This calls for better rural schools, better roads, better health facilities, more modern conveniences in the home, more attention to home beautification, and more time for play, for social life and hospitality among rural people.

Help in the farm home is rare and exceedingly difficult to obtain. The data reported in this paper show that if the farm woman is to take her part in the social and civic life of her own family and the community in which she lives, her work and the conditions surrounding the home must be so adjusted as to make this possible.

Making life in the farm home satisfying is one of the big problems of the open country today and one which the cooperative agricultural extension service is helping to meet through the home demonstration agents, whose work is touched upon in this circular.