i 4 AGRICULTURE 



of " nerves," that noxious weed of modern 

 civilisation ! Therefore the conclusion ar- 

 rived at is that given the right stamp of 

 woman for this work, they can with ordinary 

 care and experience become quite capable 

 of doing all the manual work necessary to 

 become a successful gardener, assisted by a 

 labourer to dig and cart and wheel heavy 

 loads, and who can also do the actual stoking 

 of greenhouses. Women of course can, and 

 do, do this well enough, but experience 

 shows that it is undesirable for them to take 

 so much out of themselves physically, when 

 their object is to make use of their training 

 and education in order to bring their intel- 

 lects to bear upon the work in hand instead 

 of doing it by mere rule of thumb. 

 The stamp From the foregoing it will readily be seen 



of women 



required for that the woman who will make a real success 

 of the " lighter branches of agriculture " is 

 the one who possesses, first of all, an innate 

 love of the country, and of country life and 

 out-door pursuits ; second, one whose educa- 



