The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-04-25
BOARDING SCHOOL.
GIRLS SHOULDER
HOES FOR NATION
Will Give Up Their Holi-
days at Greenwich to
Plant Potatoes.

When next Sunday morning a group
Of "a girls Of Rosemary hall, at Green
witch, shoulder their hoes and start
forth to plant potatoes it will be be-
cause they have determined to "do
their bit" by putting the "Hoe Behind
the Flag" Blisters will be their
badge of service and the girls who
cannot show at least one will be bid
den go do her duty.
The girls are of a group known as
the Rosemary Woodcrafts Girls, who
have decided to form a woodcraft
Potato club and enter the competition
for prizes offered by the Woodcraft
League. They are to have their cut
ting "bee' Sunday under the super
vision Of Mrs. William F. Dominick,
at her home in Lake avenue. They
will be taught how to cut potatoes,
how to dip them and, when Sunday
morning comes, how to plant them,
cover up the hills and put Mother
Nature to work. Their field will be
adjacent land. belonging to the big
chief of the Woodcraft League, Ernest
Thompson Seton, who also will look
after the blowing, narrowing and
fertilizing.
Each girl will have the care of rs
hills Of tubers and it is significant that
they are giving Of their own holiday
time when ordinarily they would be
planning the commencement "crea-
TONS and revising their essays. AS
many of them come from remote
cities, they have arranged that all the
boarding pupils shall care for the
potato plots until commencement and
then give way to the resident students
from Greenwich, who will do the work
during vacation and in the fall the
harvesting will be done by the entire
club. The leader of the club Is Miss
Adelaide Lyman Pierce, of Chicago.
The Wabanaki school at Greenwich
is also being organized as q Woodcraft
Potato club and will enter the prize
contest. This school is unique in tina.
1t has been demonstrating with great
success the 'Woodcraft idea The work
Of the craft has been carried on, and
high scholastic attainment has &C
companied the experiment. The en-
tire school, teachers included, meets
as Woodcraft council around the
council ring each morning and each
one has vote in deciding any ques-
ton which arises.
Mrs, Emerson r. Miller, Of Green
witch, chairman of the Greenwich
branch Of the Fairfield County Farm
bureau. which is associated with the
state bureau conducted under the aus
pieces Of the Agricultural college at
Storrs, and with the federal bureau,
is cooperating with the Woodcraft
Potato clubs in the effort to put to
work all unemployed labor and every
unused plot of ground. The Wood
craft Potato clubs are furnishing part
Of the seed potatoes needed at cost,
very much below present market
prices.
Miss Ruutz- Rees and Miss Ryan, OF
Rosemary hall are organizing sum-
mer camp for girls back of Greenwich,
near the historical Revolution Rock,
where part Of the farm will be planted
with potatoes. The girls will be or
ganized as woodcraft Girls and the
Camp will be run on the Woodcraft
plan, the league sending its girls camp
director to start the work.
I Two similar camps under the direc-
ton Of the Connecticut suffrage war
work committee are being established
where the Woodcraft league will CO.
operate for potato growing. These
also will be organized on Woodcraft
lines. The exact location of the
camps is not yet announced.
Miss Jean w. Miller, of New York
city, has been named as national chair
man Of the Woodcraft Potato clubs.