COUNTRY LIFE
Women Farmers It is always cheering to hear of forms of activity in which there is no unemployment. One of these is women's work .on the land. I was told this week at Studley, where is one of the best of the training establishments, that the demand for women skilled in the work of dairying and gardening, and indeed other branches of the farmer's art, tends to exceed the supply. The authorities receive more enquiries than they can satisfy, especially in the higher branches. This is a tribute both to the particular establishment and to the efficiency of the woman worker. A great many young men go to agricultural colleges, such as Wye, with a general rather than a particular aim ; and a good many do not proceed with the industry for long after they leave. A very large proportion of the young women go to the colleges with a quite definite idea, and are drafted without any trouble at all directly into the sort of job for which they set out to train, themselves.
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