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Rural Women continued
It is not until the middle of the twentieth century that we find images of women in the act of changing the landscape - on a tractor, shooting rabbits - and
these images have the feeling of being taken for their curiosity value.
Daily the same monotonous routine is gone through. Up at day-break, she puts on the heavy yard boots, and goes out to milk.
The cow yard is covered with the usual mixture of earth and manure, which in the summer is raised by the rushing cows into a cloud of irritating dust ; and in the winter becomes a puddle of mud up to the
ankles, with stepping stones to reach the shed with its milking bails, filthy and malodorous. "Sparks" Fortnightly, 20 May 1922, p.23.
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