. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 252 Missouri Agricultural Report. yet even with this wonderful machine bad butter is still marketed and sour cream delivered to the caterer—for the need of the proper woman behind it all. The lack of ice in many farm homes has made the work more arduous, yet a case has been cited when this has been overcome by daily churning, thus not allowing the cream to become too acid, also being able, to market a good quality of butter. Again, this woman was equal to making her condit
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 252 Missouri Agricultural Report. yet even with this wonderful machine bad butter is still marketed and sour cream delivered to the caterer—for the need of the proper woman behind it all. The lack of ice in many farm homes has made the work more arduous, yet a case has been cited when this has been overcome by daily churning, thus not allowing the cream to become too acid, also being able, to market a good quality of butter. Again, this woman was equal to making her conditions. Just how to stimulate the pride and knowledge of what really constitutes good butter among many of our farm women is the most difficult problem, especially as long as their products bring the same price over the counter as the untiring efforts of women who offer only a finished product. With all of this there is plenty of good butter being produced, but we must realize that the greatest problem after all in the making of only good butter is not so much the proper facilities, but always the woman behind the butter. THE SMALL FARM HOME. (Mrs. A. J. Wilder, Rocky Ridge Farm, Mansfield, Mo.) There is a movement in the United States to- day, wide-spread and very far reaching in its consequences. People are seeking after a freer, healthier, happier life. They are tired of the noise and dirt, bad air and crowds of the cities, and are turning longing eyes toward the green slopes, wooded hills, pure running water and health-giv- ing breezes of the country. A great many of these people are discour- aged by the amount of capital required to buy a farm, and hesitate at the thought of undertaking a new business. But there is no need to buy a large farm. A small farm will bring in a good living with less work and worry, and the business is not hard to learn. In a settlement of small farms the social life can be much more pleasant than on large farms, where the distance to the nearest
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