THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 43 
always been regarded as a fair day’s “sprout.” They 
continued at this task until the entire lot of potatoes 
was finished. Then they assisted other farmers whose 
potatoes were sprouting; 
for labor had become as 
scarce on New Hamp- 
shire farms as it was on 
farms everywhere else. 
Thus these women not 
only blazed a trail for 
their sisters, but proved 
what thousands of other 
women are proving in in- 
dustry — that woman not 
only is not an inferior workman, but that her nervous 
make-up enables her to work faster than man. These 
women gardeners did their 
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share|in' thedightjfor free- 
dom — not merely that poli- 
tical equality forwhich men 
and women struggled on 
the fields of Europe, but 
that greater freedom, hu- 
man equality. Even to 
that cause has the war gar- 
den contributed materially. 
The sun shines for all types of garden Jf WO pk of these 
young women proved anything, it was that in union 
there is strength. The strength that comes from union 
it was found advantageous to utilize in many another 
The community type of victory garden 
