WHAT THE LAND GIRL LEARNS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 42, 14 November 1918, Page 2

WHAT THE LAND GIRL LEARNS

As a college girl whose studies take up the greater part of the year, 1 have only my holidays to devote to war work, and I have just oomo back from spending a. month of these on a farm.

Though we wore housed at the farmer's house we were not provided with meals there, and the greatest chango for us consisted in the tuloplion of the actual farm labourers' , bill of fare. Up at. six in the morning, we had a glass of milkeach and some bread and butter before we started our work. We took our real breakfast with us to the fields. This we had at 9.30, and it consisted of water and 'bread and cheese. Tlin fivr.m labourers don't take water—they usually have cold lea (real cold tea) or beer. Helping to get in tho harvest proved very 'arduous. During our first week there the farmer was shorl -handed. Wo liad to keep "on the job" without intermission,! and oh! how our muscles ached after slacking all day. We'never took a midday meal. So tired were iro after our morning's work that we preferred to spend the time sleeping in some .shady spot in the fields. Our tea wo had in the fields about ■{..'<). It cousiVied of lime juico and more bread and choose. ,

There was- a hostel some three miles from the farm at which were a number of land girls. Hero we used to go for our evening meal. The girls-university girls all of (hem—took it in turns to do the cooking. By the time we had had our evening meal and walked homo again i|. was usually ton o'clock. I';havo learned (o shoo'hoist's and ride a great stout cart horse in tho most approved yokel fashion, and as for tho harvesting work, we helped not only with the wheat, but with the barley as .well. , Getting in the barley harvest has its drawbacks. The "ears" get down your neck and up your sleeves, "and as a, j result both my chum and I got barley ! rash. Anyone wlio has had tiiis knows how painful , and irritating it is. Now that it is over i feel all the better for my. land "holiday." X never once took cold, though on wet (lays wo often got drenched through te the skin, for one- doesn't carry umbrellas, nor, for* the matter of fhat, sunshades, on a farm! At home, on the other hand, I have only to sit for five minutes iu a draught to develop a chill.

Rural lifo mid above all rural food mo splendid! It seems strange .getting back to well-ordered breakfasts, lunches, teas, and dinners. ■ 1 miss 1 lie lime juice; the two-loaves I used to out a day —and Die cheese!—M. N., in the "Daily Mail."

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