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18 in farm labor and domestic service are still working with their parents, it is neither possible, nor is it immediately desirable, to legislate regarding them.

Domestic service and farm labor are, however, undergoing a process of evolution. It is one thing to work at odd jobs around the farm, under the direction of a father, and quite another to pick strawberries twelve or fourteen hours a day under the eye of a boss. One occupation is educative; the other is monotonous and as physically harmful (save for the fresh air) as any factory toil. It is one thing to help mother around the home, making beds, dusting, and the like; and quite another to slave, half-fed, in the kitchen of a boarding-house under the hawk-eye of its mistress.

In a recent address Dr. Woods Hutchinson makes the statement that some forms of farm work are as badly in need of supervision as is the factory work,—a statement