camp, payment being at the rate of $2 a day. The girls worked eight 
hours a day on the farms, in addition to various "chores" at home, 
such as milking, caring for chickens, and doing most of their own 
washing. They were delivered to the employers in our cars, going to 
distances within a radius of fifteen miles. They wore men's blue over- 
alls. There was universal approval of their work among the employers, 
and regret when we closed, and there was universal improvement in 
health and enjoyment of the work among the girls. 
(Signed) Ida Ogilvie, 
Dean of the Camp. 
"Braewold, " Mount Kisco, New York. 
I have your request for a statement in regard to the work of the 
"Farm Girls" of the Bedford Village Colony during the past season 
and I reply with pleasure. As President of the Bedford Farmers Club, 
I was glad to give an official of the National Agriculture Department 
an opportunity to make public inquiry of the members of the 
Club, at its October meeting, as to their experience with the work of 
these girls. 
Some eight or ten who had employed them gave emphatic testi- 
mony as to the efficiency of their labor, their marked intelligence, their 
eagerness to learn the "reason why" of agricultural operations, their 
zest and steadfastness in their work and their pleasant and un- 
exceptionable demeanor. 
While they were physically too light for heavy farm work they yet 
accomplished such results that production hereabouts was consider- 
ably increased. I may add that my own experience with them was in 
accord with these statements. 
If the expected labor shortage during the coming year is realized 
there will be an increased demand for such labor. They were paid 
twenty-five cents an hour for this work. 
(Signed) James Wood. 
Women Epeicient in Agriculture 
Orchard Farm, Ghent, N. Y. 
Editor, The Garden Club of America: In reply to numerous 
inquiries in relation to the work of women in agriculture and especially 
on my own farm I am glad to give results from a practical business 
standpoint. 
For more than ten years, I have had experience in the employment 
of women on my fruit farm. This has been with college girls who have 
come from cities to learn the practical side of horticulture, in the 
propagation of plants in connection with the study of botany. A 
number of neighborhood girls and women have been employed in 
picking, assorting, and packing fruit for market. 
