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' unior Institutes Confer HE JUNIOR INSTITUTES OF ONTARIO held their annual meeting on March It at a separate seSsion of the Junior Farmers' ‘nference at the Ontario Agricultural College. uelph. 'Florence Porter, one of the junior members of ‘. F.W.I.0. Board. presided and spoke of the tle ulating experience it had been to serve on e Provincial Board of F.W.I.O. Doreen Break. 3'. other junior representative on the Board gave . detailed report of the Board meetings and in other address appealed to the Junior Institutes get into the Ontario Farm Safety crusade, hiss Brock outlined the Women's Institute pro- ,ct dealing specifically with making stairs or .i ps safe and said: “I feel that the Junior Institutes might well ke up this project too. Apart from being an in portant piece of work. it would strengthen ti- tie between the Junior and Senior Institutes. note of the things the girls might do with airs in their own homes would be to see that 1'! steps are not cluttered with things that might 'ause falls, to paint the top and bottom steps f cellar stairs. to repair treads and where there 1' e young children to have gates put at the top in bottom of stairs." Miss Brock suggested that Junior Institutes . ight take up safety as a year long project or as " shorter programme. Or if there is a Women's stitute near, the girls might help the women - ith their safety project. The limit of a Junior F.W.I.0. Board Direc- r‘s term of office is two years. Miss Brock com- leted her second year at this meeting and in the ‘lections. conducted by Miss Jean Scott of Home conomics Service. Miss Porter moved up to ake her place. The new Junior director elected ' Miss Jean Smith of Huron county with Miss . lizabeth Barker of York as alternate. The guest speaker was Mrs. Diana Ferris. of e Rural Sociology Unit. Canada Department of griculture. Mrs. Ferris has been working on e Survey of Ontario Farm Homes and Home- akers sponsored by Home Economics Service nd her address was based on information gained rt the survey, as it relates to the role of farm omemakers in the years just ahead. One point of interest was that in the homes urveyed where the average age of the home- . akers was 44, the number of children in the 'Iamilies averaged 3. In 60% of the homes there as no one living in the home except the pur- nts and children. In 40% of the homes grand- arents or others lived with the family. “In cities ost houses are smaller than in the country." rs. Ferris said, “and there is no room for anyâ€" _ne but the family. If you have had grand- arents living in yom home your life has prob- ‘- UMMEI ‘lfibl * * * BALLAD By Richard C. Tiplady So I said to myself: "I'll sell my farm And hie me off to sea"â€" Ohl The rolling. rollicking, tossing and frolicking Wonderful shining sea! 50 I sold the house. and I sold the barn. My land. and the tractor new. The hens and the pigs, the cows and the geese And the little red rooster, tool Soon I was treading a wooden deck. Bound for a port in Spain: I knew. deep down inside of me. I‘d never see home again. One night I was chatting with Mr. Mate. Said I: "What would you be. If you had your way in life again, Away from the rolling sea?” Said he to me: "I'd buy me :1 farm. I hate this grey-green sea; This rolling and rollicking. tossing and frolicking Horrible shining seal "I'd my me .1 house. I'd buy me a barn. Goo land and a tractor new, With hens and pigs and cows and geese And a little red rooster. too.” So there it is. you never can tell. \Vhich way it is going to be. The sailor longs for the peaceful farm And the farmer dreams of the sea! * i: * ably been the richer for it." Not many of the farms surveyed had hired men. which means that the farm woman is doing considerable work on the farm. especially with farm machinery. She will not have the work of hoarding :1 hired man: and while she is not likely to have a hired girl \th will have more mechanical equipment to help with her housework. About this home equip- ment. Mrs. Ferris advised. “The machines are there to help youâ€"don't let them run you, not let the care of them cut into your leisure time." "Most of you have more education than your mothers." the speaker said. “but you'll need it. Heed the slogan of this Education Week which is ‘Stay at school'.“ As indicated by the findings of the survey. about eight out of every ten in thc audience would be mothers. Mrs. Ferris predicted. thn mothers wore asked what they considered the greatest need of children the answer was almost invariably love and cmolionul security. and next to that. health. It was found that most of the children curried some responsibility on the farm. “And.” said Mrs. Ferris. “to carry responsibility gives :1 young person composure and confidence." This led to it discussion of the accidents to children driVing tractors or working with other machinery on the highly mechanized farms of today. The survey showed that most of the trac- tor uccidcnls happened to drivers under ten years old. After twelve. children did not have so many accidan up to the age of fifteen. After fifteen (perhaps they began to attempt new work with machinery at this age) there was :1 great upswcep of accidents up to the age of twenty. In the discussion following this address the girls asked several questions bearing on their own futures in either careers or homemaking or both. One hit of advice Mrs. Ferris left with them was. “Never forget you're a woman. That's the most important thing." 23