12 AGRICULTURE 



enterprising women into country districts 

 should be a great factor in helping rural 

 and village industries, and generally in bring- 

 ing life and interest back to the country, 

 which perhaps again may help in some measure 

 to stay the depopulation. 

 Are women It is certainly true that all women are by 

 P fitted for no means fitted for manual labour or for an 

 labour? outdoor life at all. For instance those girls 

 whose minds are set upon University life and 

 the obtaining of degrees simply see nothing 

 but an endless vista of monotony in garden- 

 ing, especially in watering, weeding and 

 tidying, without which who can become a 

 real gardener ? or in walking round and 

 round poultry runs, carrying pans or buckets 

 of food. Of course it is really the same in 

 any profession or business, there must 

 always be a certain amount of drudgery, 

 it only depends upon the spirit in which 

 " the drudgery " is undertaken. Then again 

 women of more years who have never taken 

 any sort of physical exercise in their youth 



