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armers in late nineteenth century Adelaide Hoodless, ca 1890 Canada read agricultural university ot Guelph FWIO Collection newspapers such as The Farmer's Advocate and prompted Hoodless to start Nor'west Farmer to keep ,' ' lobbying for domestic abreast of developments L ", _ education for girls in in scientific farming '" _ "h . _ public schools as well Farmers' Union and T . _ . as at the univerSity level. Grange meetings provided an outlet to Although from the discuss concerns in perspective of today this . . h' . . their local community ‘_ _ might seem antiquated, with theirpeers. , I one must remember Unforti iatel th 'r - _ _ I, y e, that her aim was to wives and daughters . , l . introduce the same had no such outlets. . I .. . Despite offering f V __ level of selence recommendations on - to the operation of a cake recipes and curtains, ' household as was ' I agricultural papers rarely / - . applied to the cultivation mentioned household science, and fertilization of fields. and discussions at farmers' . _ . . _ This was also a period when union meetings certainly never _ _ touched on the domestic realm. much was being written about improving standards for household in 188ls Adelaide fluntci: married John hygiene and domestic science H,e)udlres:,' hogan Hoodless and moved to a comfortable home by speaking at Farmers' Union meetings on W liiilllllii‘li wltcre “Wit thsurvcrs cxpecierl topics of iniiiurliuice to lzirm Women, From. those her to settle into a life of middle-class activities came the idea to create a parallel domesticity. In August Of 1888 her fourth Sorl, organization of value to rural women. Out of John Harold, died of "summer milk fever," the first meeting held in 1897 at Stoney Creek, likely from drinking unpasteurized milk. Ontario, grew an organization called the The helplessness that she felt as a mother Federated Women's Institutes (Wl) of Canada.