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Above all, the conditions of farm life must always be shaped with a view to the welfare of the farmer’s wife and the farm laborer’s wife, quite as much as to the welfare of the farmer and the farm laborer.
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He stresses that the welfare of both the farmer's wife and the laborer's wife is equally important as that of the men.
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