A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



oflfers better opportunities for women in agricul- 

 ture, both in training and in making a real start. 



"In Missouri I met a woman whose occupation 

 was the growing of small fruits, at which she was 

 very successful. She had diflSculty in securing 

 seasonal labor. I have wished ever since that we 

 might have introduced the idea of the woman 

 fruit-farmer, employing in summer yoimg women 

 of the Land Army type — teachers, students, etc. 

 — making a sort of summer community through 

 the experiment, and herself superintending this 

 work and carrying on the farm during the winter 

 months without the extra help. I believe this sort 

 of plan would be practical in other lines as weU — 

 truck-gardening or beekeeping, for example. 



"To sum up, I found the most promising avenues 

 open to women to include the dairy, the poultry- 

 farm, beekeeping, the truck-garden, the fruit-farm, 

 and nursery or hot-house work. Untrained girls 

 from our groups have done remarkably good work 

 in these lines, and I know, of course, that trained 

 women have excelled in them." 



The secretary of the Bureau of Vocational In- 

 formation in New York, JSIiss Emma Hirth, one of 

 our members, some two years ago made a canvass 

 of women engaged in agricultural pursuits of many 



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