WOMEN AND A GRICIA,TURAL WORK.
[To ran Emma or ram "ereen ton"1 Sin,—Referring to your article "Economic Quackery" in your issue of January 23rd and your appeal to women to take part in agricultural work, may I give my experience? I generally have a gardener and chauffeur. The chauffeur enlisted early in September, and is now driving a motor at the front The gardener, for family reasons, did not go till December, but since then I have bad no man about the place. I engaged a lady gardener, trained—and well trained—at Swanley College. I am not experienced in gardening work myself, and can only do the leas skilled work ; but I have helped to cut down an ash-tree, and to saw up the branches. I have also scraped and repainted garden scats, and done other odd jobs to help the gardener. May I say here that women trained at Horticultural Colleges are trained to do all the work of a garden—trenching, pruning, making up hotbeds, Sur.— and hove a good scientific knowledge of manures ? I have also found that in the special circumstances my parlour- maid was quite willing to lend a hand, to attend to the stoking of the greenhouse fires when required, and between us, I think I may say, the whole place, the garden, inside the houses and out, never looked better. I am by no means young, but I do not find my health has suffered from my somewhat strenuous labours. I hope many other loose- holders will do likewise, and no help to remove any prejudice there may exist against agricultural or gardening work for women. May I mention the Women's Agricultural and Horticultural International Union (Secretary, Miss Ella Gill; Office, 45 Queen Anne Chambers, S.W.), where such workers of all sorts may be heard of P—I am, Sir, &a,
A SCOTCHWOMA.N.
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