WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE 



holds such a place with certain cotton mills at 

 Lexington, North Carolina. Many women are 

 in charge of small places, including greenhouses, 

 lawns, flower and vegetable gardens, or they di- 

 rect some part of the work. A very able woman 

 has lately undertaken the remaking and care of 

 a fine rock garden on Long Island; another is at 

 Onteora Park, Tannersville, New York, in charge 

 of the greenhouse and two acres of vegetables 

 and flowers. 



As farm-manager or assistant in charge of poul- 

 try, dairy, greenhouse in industrial schools, or in 

 connection with schools that have only a vege- 

 table-garden, women are in constant demand. It 

 is very difficult to supply such places. Besides 

 the necessity of training, special qualifications of 

 age, experience, and temperament come into ques- 

 tion. Of poultry-farming, beekeeping, and dairy 

 work it is hardly necessary to speak, so many 

 women are successfully engaged in these occupa- 

 tions. 



The seasonal work of berry-picking, picking and 

 packing of apples, work in orange groves, and so 

 on, always results in a demand for women workers 

 now, and I would say that the status of the type 

 of seasonal woman worker is decidedly raised since 



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