They not only worked in the fields, but frequently pulled the plow and other implements of agriculture.

It was not an uncommon sight in Germany to see a woman and a large dog harnessed together drawing a milk cart.

When it became necessary to deliver the milk the woman slipped her part of the harness, served the customer, resumed her harness and went on to the next stop.
In Belgium, in Holland and in France, women delivered the milk also, but the cart always was drawn by one or two large dogs or other animals and the woman was the driver.

In Austria it was a strange sight to foreigners, but occasioned no remark among the people, to see women drawing carts and wagons in which were seated their lords and masters.
Not infrequently the boss wielded a whip.
The pride of the German nation was in its efficient workmen.

Friends of the country and its system have pointed to the fact of universal labor as its great virtue; because to work is good.