WHERE WOMEN DRAW PLOUGHS.
An lowa • traveller back f reams the new north-west frontier relates some of the hardships of life there." He says : "I saw a colony of Galaciams in Saskatchewan, and they gave me the most extraordinary exhibition of human patience and fortitude I ever beheld. I saw from'a dozen to fifteen
women hitched' two and! two on an eigliteen inch breaking plough, and they marched straight ahead through the, tough-ground with that plough, tearing up five acres a day on an average. There was a man holding the plough. The work these people did was as effective as cou'td have been dome by horses or oxen. The women seemed to take to their hard labour -as a matter
of course. They are very cheerful over it. I am told that scores of these women.-who draw ploughs all day have vitality enough left to dain.ee through the greater part of the night."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11796, 2 December 1902, Page 7
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154WHERE WOMEN DRAW PLOUGHS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11796, 2 December 1902, Page 7
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