178 AGRICULTURE 



water. It is then taken out, pressed ai 

 afterwards ground in a mill and finally dried 

 in the oven. 



TRAINING 



There is a very prevalent idea amongst 

 many people, and, unfortunately, especially 

 amongst women (though they are beginning 

 to improve in this respect) that work, such as 

 dairying, gardening, poultry and bee-keeping, 

 may be taken up with next to no knowledge 

 of the subject. 



Why this should be so, it is hard to see. 

 It is usual in all other walks of life to learn 

 the business at which one proposes to 

 work, and why should not the same course 

 be followed with regard to farming or any 

 other of the lighter branches of agricul- 

 ture ? The writer is acquainted with a lady 

 (typical of many others), who, after taking 

 a six weeks' poultry course, insisted, in the 

 face of great opposition, in starting a small 

 poultry farm. All the conditions were 



