[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, With reference to
your article this week on " Woman's Part in British Farming," I think the farmers and their wives in the South of England must be. very different from those in South Westmorland and North Lancashire. Here the heaviest part of the work falls on the woman, but she never thinks of not doing it. Dairy (including often a share of milking), butter making, eggs, poultry feeding, killing and dressing, the care of calves, sometimes of lambs; make a full day's work for a woman, even if she has a young girl to help her with household work, children, sewing, cooking and baking. Yet many of our farmers are quite up to date enough to take advantage of the scholarships for their children afforded by the. Lancashire County Council Farm School at Hutton, and study the best methods of dairy and poultry
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