COUNTRY LIFE
Ir is, I think, a sign of the times that a woman farmer is to be one of the four farmers who are to visit the United States and Canada to learn and lecture. They go officially from one Ministry of Agriculture to the other. Miss Strang's name is especially associated with Women's Institutes and with the admirable Produce Guild. It is quite certain that after the war women will take a much more prominent part in husbandry ; and their recruitment will automatically help to encourage the ideal of local self-sufficiency, or the return to what was best in the village life of Merrie England. I see that it has been suggested (by Professor Fletcher, of Bristol University) that women are likely to take up and revive some of the dying crafts. Several of these—such as basket-making-2am really better fitted for women than men, because they can be carried on in the home. Is not the admirably edited magazine of the Women's Institute called Home and Country?
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