WOMEN FARMERS IN THE UNITED STATES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 457, 14 March 1919, Page 1

WOMEN FARMERS IN THE UNITED STATES.

The request of the United States Department of Labour, asking: the Woman's Land Army to affiliate with it, was granted by a unanimous vote at a meeting; of State chairmen (says the ' Monitor.') Henceforth President Wilson, through the Federal employment office, will assist iu the recruiting of farmerettes, and the army will be prepared to furnish women labourers in whatever part of the country they are most needed. During the past season about 15,000 young women worked on farms hroughout the country, and, according to Mrs Margaret Neale, assistant to the Director-General of the Women's Division of the United States Employment Service, the demands of the coming year will be far greater. Mrs Neale read a letter fr«m the President to Mrs Henry Wade Rogers, chairman of the Exemtive Committee, which voiced his l>|irooiati'iu of the work done by the .••ray to help meet the food problem, ml pressed the hope that Ameriii farmers would follow those of .mafia and Great Britain and avail h mnelves of the privileges of empl>>\ ing women in bo far as is practic > hie The Woman's Land Army is ■•rKADised ir 38 Btates. One unit will go to Florida fo. the winter, and it is hoped that more will be Mi nt to Frtince, with farm machinery, u'ldnfcthe Committee for Devastated France, of which Miss Annie Morgan in president. The Land Army proposes to relieve the sugar shortage by tapping the maple trees in Vermont and New Hampshire.