A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



of Women in Agriculture," This may be obtained 

 for sixpence from The Farmers Club, 2 Whitehall 

 Court, London, S. W. 1. 



There is no need to speak of the circumstances 

 which call us together here, of the reality of this 

 work for women, of its fast-developing possibilities. 

 In a remarkable recent sentence of Doctor Bailey's 

 he gives it as his opinion that the past generation 

 was that of the capitalist and financier; the present 

 sees the emergence of labor; but the coming gen- 

 eration shall behold the rise of the farmer. If this 

 is so — and who can doubt the words of him who 

 is at once the prophet and the priest of agriculture 

 in America ? — the woman who farms or who is 

 to-day studying the science of farming, has before 

 her a future bright with promise. 



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