Country Life
WOMEN FARMERS.
From time to time it has been charged against Women's Institutes that they have not concentrated enough on the garden, that the home has not included the homestead. A really astonishing change or advance in their policy has to be recorded. The plan of setting up co-operative market stalls in local markets (and in some few places by roadside stalls) is proving successful beyond the most ambitious expectations. There are market stalls where an average of £16 a week is taken and County returns amount to several thousand pounds a year. These stalls are in the best sense co-operative, and are useful in giving the smallest producer as well as the biggest the chance of selling his or her stuff. The women organizers have been very broad-minded in the details of their organization, especially in a readiness to throw open the stall to any humble grower of produce, whoever he or she may be. The movement, which is young, grows at a great pace.
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