When later on they go out to teach they are themselves taught by the social surroundings of the households into which they enter to still more dislike the old-fashioned ways of agriculture.

Take twenty farmers' families, where there are girls, and out of that twenty fifteen will be found to be preparing for a scholastic life.

The farmer's daughter does not like the shop-counter, and, as she cannot stay at home, there is nothing left to her but the profession of governess.

Once thoroughly imbued with these 'social' ideas, and a return to the farm is almost impossible.

The result is a continuous drain of women out of agriculture--of the very women best fitted in the beginning to be the helpmate of the farmer.