New-York tribune., 1922-09-10

branch at the girls schools. Milk testing IA
done by scientific methods, to determine the
amount of butter fat in milk products. The
girls have proved themselves experts in this
line. The tester must be an early riser, for
she must be on the ground at milking time.
often as early as 3 o'clock in the morning.
But the girls who do the work like it. AS one
of them told the writer, she never had seen a
sunrise before. Now, on her new lob, she
sees the sun rise every morning and she en-
joys nothing more.
Among the titled women who are taking
the government course at these "farmerette"
schools are Baroness Franciska Hammerstein.
Baroness Louise Puttkamer, Princess Eudoxia.
daughter of former King Ferdinand of Bull
garia; Countess Hedwig Ledebur, Countess
Pleszo, Countess Eleanor Puttlingen. Count
ess Vitzthum, Baroness Martha Platen, Bar
oness Eschweger, Baroness Vera Won Pritt-
witz and Baroness Mary Won Guretzky
With these titled women, working in the
fields and garden and in the classrooms, ars
many girls from the big cities-girls who
belong to the bourgeoise class and who, in
earlier days, would have known Of their
present companions only as they read their
names in the public prints. But to-day they
have become fast friends, these titled women
and their companions, the daughters of shop.
keepers and manufacturers. Unconsciously,
perhaps, they have come nearer than many
others to working out the democratic ideals
for which the German republic stands, but
which the monarchists have been fighting.
On each farm there is large manor
house, in which most of the girls find accom-
modations. Those who cannot be taken care
of there find rooms in nearby villages The
bedrooms where the girls sleep are made very
attractive with rugs, cretonne curtains, easy
chairs and books. Parties are given and
musical instruments are brought out, many of
the students being skilled musicians who have
had instruction under the best masters in
Europe. When the weather is warm the girls
sleep out in the open or on the porches.
The instructors at these farm schools are
women, and are chosen by the government.
The courses begin in February, when the first
WORK in the fields is to be done, and end in
November, at the close of the harvest season.
After they have taken the practical course
many of the girls take further courses in ag-
riculture at some college. Some go back to
the farms of their parents, while others arg
engaged as NGutspraktikantin" to take charge
of manufacturing butter and cheese on dairy
farms or doing general farm work. Some oT
them have married farm owners, while Others
have been planning and saving for their own
small farms. Another opening for women in
the agricultural field has been found In the
way Of garden supervisors for public gardana.
Before che war professorships in the agri-
cultural sciences were maintained at many of
the universities, including K6nigsberg. Bres-
lau, Halle, G0ttingen, Leipzig, Bostock an6
Jena, approximately 2 per cent of the students
at those institutions being enrolled in the agri-
cultural classes. Among other schools inelud-
ing agriculture were the Agricultural High
School of Berlin, the Technical High School al
Munich, the Forestry Academy at Tharandt
and the Agricultural Academy at Bonn. Many
intermediate schools and lower agricultural
schools were added by the state, giving prac.
tical courses in farming for boys. But tbs
modern school for farm women would not
have appealed to the old class Of Junkers thai
ruled Germany. Consequently, the aristocratis
fraulein. working in the fields with he,
bourgeois sister, may be said to represent th.
new Germany.