HELP IN THE FARMHOUSE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1776, 14 June 1913, Page 27

HELP IN THE FARMHOUSE.

The 'most difficult rural labour problem is that of securing household help on the averngo farm. Tho larger tho farm, the raoro seribus the problem becomes. _ The necessity of giving a suitable education to her children deprives tho farm woman largely of liome help; "while the lure of the city with its social diversions, more regular hours of labour, and its supposed ■Higher respectability, deprives her of help bred and born in the country. Under those circumstances, she is compelled to provide tho food that requires the least labour. This simple fact explains much of tho lack of variety, ui tho midst of the greatest possible abundance, so often complained of on the farmer's table. The development, of the creamery system over largo sections of the country has relieved the farmer's wifo of a heavy burden. This gives the hint for furl her improvement. Tho community laundering and oilier \rorlc could be done in an establishment connected with the creamery. Labour-saving appliances in tlio future will greatly lighten the burdens of those who ore willing to them. Willi the teaching of homo subjects in the schools, household labour will again become respectable as well as easier and more interesting.—Jtopoi't of U.S. Country Life ;