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to show in her work. We are fully satisfied, however, 

 that there are many industries on the farm that a 

 woman is well calculated to manage or assist in the 

 work. I know of girls who work in farm homes that 

 help or do the entire work of making the butter after 

 the cows are milked, will churn down cellar in the 

 summer season, carrying the water to wash the butter 

 down and up the stairs, work the butter by hand, and 

 all that, who would refuse to help milk in the dairy 

 where the cream is churned by horse-power and the 

 butter worked and cared for by a man, not because she 

 does not like the work, but because it is not customary 

 or the fashion — not just the thing. If a working- 

 woman does not like to do a certain work, it is her 

 privilege not to do it, if she can do otherwise — that is 

 her business ; but if she has taste and opportunity for 

 any honest toil, let her do it, and feel that it is 

 nobody's business but her own. 



The world has gotten a little mixed and consequently 

 somewhat tired of telling just what woman's sphere of 

 work is ; but it will only be a short time till it will 

 settle down to the fact that a woman's work, like 

 man's, is just what she is able to do, and what she 

 wants to do, and what she has opportunity to do. 



We make our butter and ship to commission mer- 

 chants. We think we have bought a little experience 

 in this line. We were not long in finding out that 

 commission men were something like the creamery men 

 good, bad, and very often indifferent. It was a shock 

 to the nerves when one part of a churning sold for 

 20 cents and the remainder for 8 cents — both sold by 

 the same merchant. The 20 cent part of the churn- 

 ing was all right, but the 8 cent part had too much 

 salt in it. Some of them had a peculiar way of making 



