36 AGRICULTURE 



looker's side, may help to indicate the broad 

 effects to be aimed at. 



I. (a) Digging. This is at best hard back- 

 aching work for a woman, and a branch of 

 gardening of which it is to be hoped she will 

 not have a great deal to do. It is generally 

 possible to hire a labourer, or what is known 

 as " a rough man," to do this, and it is 

 certainly wiser to pay such wages as the 

 locality demands for " spade labour " than 

 for a woman to take an amount of energy 

 out of herself which could be turned to far 

 greater advantage in planning and scheming 

 her work out with a clear bright brain. Of 

 course every woman-gardener ought to know 

 how to dig, and how to trench " two spits 

 deep " too when necessary. In gardening as 

 in everything else " knowledge is power," and 

 unless one has been through the mill oneself, 

 how can one tell whether those working for 

 one are doing the work properly? and in 

 digging, as in all other kinds of work, if it is 

 done badly or skimped, the next crops are 



