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Employment of Women in Agriculture. 



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(5) That Women's Institutes should develop as fully as 

 possible the experiments they have begun in organising 

 demonstrations in labour-saving methods and in the 

 various branches of household econom}^ ; and that local 

 Education Authorities should give them every facility 

 for classes in connection with these subjects. 



(6) That Women's Institutes should endeavour to extend 

 their organisation as widely as possible amongst wives 

 of farmers and small holders and amongst farm servants. 



(7) That the attention of farmers and landowners be 

 directed to the desirability of improvements in b3n:es, 

 yards and homes with a view to curtaiUng unnecessary 

 labour. 



(8) That in dairying districts Local Education Authorities 

 should organise milking classes. 



That Local Agricultural Associations should consider 

 the advisability of offering prizes for women milkers at 

 local shows. 



(9) That short courses should be provided for training 

 women as stock-women at Farm Institutes as long as the 

 demand for their services exist ; and that scholarships 

 or financial assistance should be given in connection 

 with the short courses. 



(10) Scholarships or assisted Studentships for training for 

 skiUed posts in dairying and cheese factories should 

 be provided so as to place these posts within the reach 

 of the small farmer's daughter and the farm servant. 



(11) That the recommendations of the Agricultural Educa- 

 tion Conference as regards poultry be acted on. (These 

 recommendations are {a) the formation at one of the 

 existing Agricultural Colleges of a training course for 

 poultr}^ keepers, {b) the institution of a national ex- 

 amination in poultry in connection with the above.) 



(12) That the present system of itinerant instruction in 

 poultr}^ keeping be extended and supplemented by the 

 establishment of demonstration centres. 



(13) That the system of supplying stock poultry and eggs 

 through approved stations be extended. 



(14) That demonstration centres should be established in 

 market-gardening districts in which smaU holders are 

 numerous ; and that instruction in all kinds of skilled 

 work in connection with fruit be> provided for women. 



(15) That the duty of obtaining accurate statistics relating 

 to women engaged in agriculture, and of maintaining 



