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of the work they are doing. DR. Ogilvie
says they have gained 10 per cent.
since they arrived from New York last
month.
heard the plan was for the college
women to sort of direct things and tue
trade school girls TO do tho work. butt
no Socialist need lie awake nights with,
the fear that 1t is turning out that way
to any extent. had worried MYSELF
fearing the arrangement to be un-
democratic. but after / had encoun-
tered about sixteen Barnard and
Vassar students hoeing and narrowing &
and wheeling rubbish away and build- Il
ing fences and things. with honest,
muck on their overalls. I was reas-
sured @
Later on when the day was over and
the laborers had removed their overalls
and put on pretty dresses and hair,
ribbons and settled down on the front
porch to relax. there came a college
girl to three trade school girls i'm q :
hammock and she said to them: 4 {
"Do any Of you want to set the 4,
tables for dinner?"
mo-" they replied, I'VE don't. Miss
So-and-So''-naming a college gradu- :,
ate and holder of a Phi. D.-"was TO r.
set the tables tonight" nrE
Whereupon Learning meekly retired
and Labor twisted the little curls on
its forehead and began a letter to its
fellow back in New York F
College and trade school girls have $
taken an equal part in preparing the. !,
ten acres Of ground now under culti-
vation at the Womens Agricultural
Farm. ~"
In one day. with several squads
working on other estates, the farmer j
cites put in twenty-five rows of corn
1856 feet long, and did the fertilizipE,
Another day they put in 200 tomato
plants, forty-three hills Of squash and
six rows of beans and six OF cabbage.
! And It is on record that the vegetables
were such a hurry to look upon the +
farmerettes that they broke all West.
chester records in coming up. -.
Chances for workers. aHD
Nor will these vegetables be bothered
by weeds, for Florrie Holzwasser, who
is DIR. Ogilvie's assistant at Columbia
and is studying for Phi. D., has
flourishing class in weeds and has
offered a prize to the girl who shall
gather and mount the largest collec-f
ton OF those harmful to vegetables. Z
She also has a class in insects that z
prey on gardens. so it looks as II the
peas, potatoes, &C., at the Women's
Agricultural Farm need have no fear.
Canning classes are TO be formed as
soon as tho grapes, apples and other
fruits that grow in profusion on the
| Woodcock place mature. when regi-
ments Of girls in white overalls wfl'
obey Food Dictator Hoover's command
that nothing is to be wasted. Yes, the
Mount Kisco farmerettes are organized
to work, and yet they find time to
play When l left they were busy
planning a picnic to Kinkle's Quarry,
and II any fear that that picnic may.
be dull for lack Of the masculine ele-
ment, let me whisper that lying in the
grass which Olga Ihlsing had blistered
her hands moving with a scythe that
morning I beheld baseball bat
marked in bold characters Alex Tay-
lor." So maybe there are some Adams
in that Garden of Eden after all. -
Any woman who would like to live
the life the farmerettes are living IS
advised to go ard register with the
Labor Bureau for Women. which the
New York State Industrial Commits
SIOn Is maintaining III cooperation WIN
the Mayors committee, at East
Thirty-ninth street. The committee
! which has undertaken the task OF
sending out units of girl farm laborers
who shall house themselves--the com
mittee headed by Miss Gildersleeye.
and OF which Mrs. August Belmont,
Mrs. Ruth Lift, Miss Hilda Loines.
Mrs. Howard Mansfield Mrs. Mary
Austin, Mrs. Clifford Pinchot and Miss
Mary T.. Foster are the other members
has had Miss Ruth Latimer travel
ling through the State making sur
vey of the farm situation.
She has succeeded in convincing
some farmers, and particularly fruit
} growers. that the women mean bust
ness, and several have spoken for far
merettes. In the last few days there
have been five calls for squads of from
ten to twenty workers, and one unit OF
twenty girls has just been sent to work
on the largest raspberry farm east OF
the Mississippi.
, Their employer is furnishing a
house cots and kitchen utensils for
! them, and they have elected one OF
! their number to be cook and house
keeper, each paying 80 cents a week
for her pay.