pitching it onto the wagon and driving it up to the barn where it is 
hoisted into the loft in workmanhke manner is perhaps to see the 
most spectacular and picturesque work that is being done at present, 
but it is by no means the hardest. The lessons in actual farm- 
drainage under Mr, Wm. Hibbard, entail hardest sort of manual 
labor, digging out in the hot sun in heavy muckish soil, but our 
girls do not flinch at it. 
They bring pluck and enthusiasm to bear upon the hoeing in the 
truck gardens, and gather and bring in the vegetables for home 
consumption, and have already begun canning the surplus product 
imder the able supervision of Mrs. Morse, the Housemother, who 
gives simple talks on domestic science, explaining the theory of the 
work while putting it in practical application. 
The dairy girls attend to milking the cows, weighing the milk, 
keeping records of each cow's milk output, and shipping the milk, 
except what is used on the farm. The poultry girls are showing 
good results in the care of the chickens, and it is planned to extend 
and amphfy the dairy, poultry, and truck-raising activities, as our 
experience seems to indicate that women are pecuHarly fitted for 
these special hnes. 
Nevertheless the farm superintendent, Miss Blanche Corwin, is 
giving the girls instruction and practice in the larger farm activities. 
They are learning to handle farm machinery of all sorts as fast as 
the committee is able to procure such machinery. We had a tractor 
lent to us at the opening of the season, and eight girls learned to 
handle it efficiently, and we are planning soon to buy a tractor of our 
own, as here in the mid-west our farm problem is one of large 
acreage. The students are taught to handle the hoe, rake, wheel- 
cultivator, and all the regulation smaller agricultural implements, 
but to be of service on the farms of the middle-west they must be 
able to use the tractor, and to manage farm horses, and large imple- 
ments. They have had experience in ploughing, discing, raking, 
dragging, etc. with horse power, and show reasonable aptitude, 
quite as much aptitude as boys of similar inexperience would show. 
We have been fortunate in securing an assistant. Miss Ahem, 
who is an enthusiast in truck gardening, and at present the engaging 
of a special teacher in dairying and animal husbandry is contem- 
plated. Incidentally the girls are learning simple carpentry, such as 
is constantly necessary on any farm, and they are learning daily to 
meet the emergencies that farm-life brings. For this reason every- 
thing is being done simply, and no luxurious ideas are being indulged. 
The girls sleep on simple army cots, some in tents, some in the barn, 
where the horse stalls have been turned into comfortable httle cells, 
