Americus Times Recorder

COLLEGE GIRLS
WORKING
ON
ENGLISH FARMS

(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, July 19.-Farm work for women has become fashionable. College girls from Newnham, Oxford and almost the entire enrolment from Shefield University are among the volunteers for war work in the fields, and girls who had previously devoted all their energies to sport and fashion are making a fad of it.
A special costume for women farmers has been designed and exhibited at a women's farm work show given by Lady Cowdray at her London home.
The suit is made of tough brown linen fashioned into a long coat buttoned down the front. Knickerbockers of the same material are worn underneath, buttoned below the knee. This costume is not only cheap, but allows as much freedom of movement as man's dress. Because of the knickers, the women farmers can climb trees for pruning or picking fruit.
At Lady Cowdray's exhibition, every branch of farm work was represented, dairying, gardening, orchard work and work in the fields.
Some prejudice is encountered on the part of the old fashioned farmers.
When they receive an application for work from a girl who looks like the dairymaid of a comic opera, they are inclined to give a refusal on the spot.
Most of the applicants have little idea of what real farmwork is like. They think of a rose covered cottage, with tea served in the garden among flowers and an arcadian existence.
But they are willing to learn about pigs, chickens, and stock, and generally do well at fruit picking and hay raking.