WOMAN AS A FARM MANAGER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 8 November 1912, Page 4

WOMAN AS A FARM MANAGER.

In the United States woman has proved her title to equality with man on the cattle ranch, as elsewhere. The "Chicago Record Herald" lias just published an article dealuzg with "this subject that shows how prominent a » part woman is playing in tho cattle \ industry of Texas. At the recent meeting of the Cattle Raisers' Association in Fort •. Worth, several seats' were occupied by : women..j.,-fiJ> , teen in all from the State might have claimed admission as members. These women are not mere proprietors of cattle ranches, or mere capitalists controlling cattle ranches; they are cattlowomen in the strictest Bense. They mount their ponies and ride over their sections, inspect their herds and superintend the "roundup," just like men. One of the delegates to tlie convention, Mrs M. B. Huling, of Lampass, owns 108 sections in Culberson county, rides her pony over the ranch, and knows ) ©very foot of it. Mrs Cornelia Adair, of Palo Dura, owns 40,000 head of cattle in her ranch in Armstrong. We have tie testimony of men for it that that these, and many other women in the West and South-west, are managing their ranches successfully. A great deal is said from time to time with regard to the hardships attending life on the cattle ranch. The manner of living is very different from that which obtains in the town and city, of course, but the fact that women are not excluded from it, and that some of them are refined enough bo obtain recognition in the best of metropolitan society when they choose to ehim it, would indicate that it is an occupation from which no robust young man should shrink. , Woman may be setting a better esI ample than she knows by acquitting herself so creditably on the ranch.