who have lived previously on farms and are
thoroughly familiar with farming conditions have undertaken farm management
successfully. Such women are exceptional and there is no present indication
that this employment will be taken up to any large extent by women. The
farm manager must be strong enough to do her own work when she is unable
to procure assistance, and she may at times have to live alone.

The girl who lives on a farm and who has the endowment needed has an
exceptional opportunity to engage in productive work on her own initiative.
She should secure a plot of land on the farm for her own use. When the
other labour on the farm is being done, it takes little extra time and
exertion to do what cultivating is necessary on the girl's plot of land.
In this way she can arrange with little trouble and at little expense for
any manual labour which is beyond her own strength. A girl or a woman who
goes into the country from the city to engage in independent productive
work finds the problem of labour one of her greatest difficulties. In this
as in other respects the girl whose father or brother is a farmer is at an
advantage.

A young woman thus situated has her land secured as her share of family
good will, or at a small rental after her business has begun to pay. An
arrangement, as has been pointed out, can easily be made for the manual
labour required. She has an opportunity to learn her work thoroughly, and
to experiment, before she actually goes into business. She can arrange for
necessary fertilizers at an advantageous rate. Finally, the means of
transportation to market, and the market itself which has been found for
the products of her father's farm, often can be used for the products which
the girl has chosen to raise on her plot.

If she is particularly attracted to flower-growing, the girl on the farm
may devote herself to growing violets for market. She must study violets
carefully. She should be an authority on the subject. She should learn to
understand their appearance, habits and diseases. She should know just what
to do for her plants, how to feed and tend them, how to get the best
results, how to make a violet blossom the best blossom of its kind that can
be offered for sale. Besides this, she must know how to pick violets, how
to grade them, how to pack them, and when and where and how to send them to
market. It would appear practically certain that if the farm produce is
sent to market, the girl m