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urged shall be done) to send their own townsfolk to, if 

 work cannot be found for them at home. 



Above all, let us remember what a benefit agricultural 

 pursuits could and should prove if run on such lines as 

 those adopted by the U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry 

 when it established boys' corn clubs and girls' canning 

 clubs to teach the n^embers what was best to grow and 

 how to cultivate the crop cliosen. Quoting the Bulletin of 

 the Pan-American Union for July, and tiie little work by Mr. 

 W. W. Tracy, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, on 

 "Tomato Culture," 1 can report that the first girls' 

 canning club was organized in 1910, and by 1914, in the 

 fifteen Southern States known as the " Cotton Belt," the 

 total enrolment numbered 33,173 girls, of whom 7,793 put 

 up 6,091,237 lb. of vegetables, mostly tomatoes, all grown 

 on the small, one-tenth acre gardens allotted to each girl 

 and which she cultivated. The estimated value of this up- 

 put was placed at $284,880 against the cost to the girls of 

 about $85,000 only, thus giving a magnificent but well 

 earned and thoroughly deserved profit of practically 

 $200,000 or $25 each. If two or three hundred such 

 returns could be registered throughout the British Empire 

 and America, thmk what an advantage it would be both 

 to the producers and consumers alike, as the activities of 

 the girls were not exhausted on earning this $25 for they 

 did the routine orchard and farm work as usual ; this was 

 a little by-play and there is no doubt that the larger the 

 number of members (boys and girls) and the greater the 

 output, the cheaper will be the cost and the larger the 

 profits, whilst the risks are so spread out, that even a 

 total loss through frost or hurricane need not ruin the 

 producers. Replying to the address of welcome offered 

 to him after his victorious campaign in German South 

 West Africa, General Botha referred in a prominent 

 manner to the part that women had played in the 

 campaign, especially in maintaining the farms whilst their 

 men folk were at the Front. So they have done and are 

 doing over here, in the offices and in the factories, to keep 

 the homes going and the Empire's needs supplied. If they 

 can do this whilst a trying campaign is on, how much 

 better could they help when the campaign is over, if put 

 in the way of doing so. Hard as it will be for many men 

 to come back halt, maimed, and blind, their lot can be 

 greatly ameliorated by being engaged in a form of work 

 in which they and their women folk can both discuss plans 

 and help each other by their companionship and advice 



