Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 218
umber of women and girls doingfarm-work as their bit has been given as 258,300strong! Yet to the American farmer the womenhired hands, or farmerettes, of last year, cameas a brand-new idea. Everywhere at first they encountered opposi-tion and ridicule. Humph ! once these city girlshoe potatoes all… … SOWING THE SEED. ranks! Yet on the contrary, these same farmersthemselves called upon the units so often to laborin their fields, and employed them so regularly,that units were increased in size again and again.The girls proved such loyal, hard workers, keepingat monotonous labor with such vigor…
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