From birth each girl is worked like a man, or a slave, from four in the morning until nine at night.

Each boy is worked exactly the same way; the difference lies in the fact that the girls get plain food and plainer clothes out of it; the boys each get two hundred acres of land, buildings and stock, that the girls have been worked to the limit to help pay for; they get nothing personally, worth mentioning.
I think I have two hundred acres of land on the brain, and I think this is the explanation of it.

It's a pre-natal influence at our house; while we nurse, eat, sleep, and above all, WORK it, afterward." She paused and looked toward John Jardine calmly: "I think," she said, "that there's not a task ever performed on a farm that I haven't had my share in.

I have plowed, hoed, seeded, driven reapers and bound wheat, pitched hay and hauled manure, chopped wood and sheared sheep, and boiled sap; if you can mention anything else, go ahead, I bet a dollar I've done it." "Well, what do you think of that ?" he muttered, looking at her wonderingly.
"If you ask me, and want the answer in plain words, I think it's a shame!" said Kate.

"If it were ONE HUNDRED acres of land, and the girls had as much, and were as willing to work it as the boys are, well and good.