A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



published, and even in that year a change has 

 taken place in the attitude of individuals and of 

 the public toward women on the land. 



As two concrete examples of this change, the 

 number of women students at this college in whose 

 halls we meet to-day has probably doubled within 

 two years; and whereas, before the war, the office 

 of the Woman's National Farm and Garden Asso- 

 ciation found it difficult to place two women in a 

 season in out-of-door work, in this spring and 

 summer of 1920 we have placed fifty. With the 

 number hitherto mentioned in this paper, com- 

 pare also the varieties of out-of-door occupations 

 practised by them to-day and the number of voca- 

 tions for women in agriculture given by Presi- 

 dent Butterfield in his admirable foreword to that 

 part of the book, "Vocations for the Trained 

 Woman," devoted to opportunities for women 

 in agriculture. In this volume, issued by the 

 Woman's Educational and Industrial Union of 

 Boston in 1914, President Butterfield names poul- 

 try-keeping, small-fruit growing, and floriculture 

 as the lines in which women are most Ukely to 

 succeed. The report of the subcommittee in Eng- 

 land appointed to consider the employment of 

 women in agriculture in England and Wales, pub- 



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