University Missourian

WOMAN TO STUDY FARM MANAGEMENT

Miss Pauline Chandler is First Woman in This Course In Agriculture.

OWNS 150 ACRES OF LAND

Will Raise Beef Cattle and May Ride to Market on Horseback

For the first time in the history of the College of Agriculture, a woman has entered the class of farm management. She is Miss Pauline Chandler, a daughter of John Chandler, who is proprietor of the Courtland Lawn Farm about a mile west of this city.

Miss Chandler owns the Humeland Farm, a 150-acre tract of land which her father has given her.

"I am going to feed cattle," said Miss Chandler. "I have chosen the Angus and the Shorthorn breeds. My plans are to raise the cattle that I feed and not import them from the West. My farm has about fifty acres of tillable land and that will raise enough corn to feed them. I will feed cotton seed hull and cotton seed meal with the corn. The proposition of the amount of corn and cotton product varies. As the cattle grow older they will require less corn and more of the cotton seed product."

Miss Chandler got the idea of feeding cattle from her father. He is feeding about sixty head this winter. Almost all of his cattle are imported from the West.

"The natural conditions on my farm are ideal," continued Miss Chandler. "The pasture lands are rather hilly. This keeps the cattle from suffering from either extreme cold or extreme heat. There is also excellent spring water for the stock. And the springs have not frozen up this winter."

There is a big ledge of rock on the farm. Miss Chandler is going to have that blasted out and made into a cave or barn. The ledge of rock faces the south and there are springs nearby.

"I am going to raise a carload or so of baby beeves," the young woman said further. "That is, take the calves just as they are weaned and fatten them. The meat is tender and makes excellent roasts. It takes less feed, proportionally, to fatten them and they bring a better price in the market.

"When I make my first shipment of cattle, I am going to ride to St. Louis on horseback and see them sold," she continued. "I am so fond of riding and I think that would be an excellent and novel trip."

Miss Chandler is enrolled as a special student in the College of Arts and Science. She is studying farm management, crop production, landscape gardening, plant propagation, and field crop management.

Miss Chandler won second prize at the Farmers' Fair last April in the ladies' riding contest. There were six contestants.