Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1917 — French Woman Farmers. [ARTICLE]

French Woman Farmers.

- Among the war recompenses that will be handed down with greatest pride from generation to generation jn French families are the diplomas, now framed and hanging on the walls of many a farmhouse attesting how the peasant woman and farmers’ wives, widows and daughter's*overcame war difficulties. The actual cash returns will equal a record year In time of peace, though, excepting oats and potatoes, the yield was below the average. This country of Brie, which is generally second only to the Beauce In ■wheat production and first of all for oats, stands at the head of both, yet this Crop was sown almost entirely by women, girls and boys too young or men too old to shoulder the rifle. German prisoners of war, volunteers from the camps of interned-civilian Austrians and Germans, a few territorials on a good many Parisian schoolboys and, last, but not least, the American self-binder, helped with the harvest; but with the exception of the self-binder, the help was available only in scattered spots.