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Show ENGLAND TO USE WOMEN ON FARMS Attempt, Not Only to Maintain Agricultural Production, but to Increase It. PLAN TO OBTAIN VOLUNTEERS Must Pass Examination as to Ability to Endure Work Labor Usually Undertaken Has Been Connect-d. Connect-d. ed With Live Stock. Great Britain has attempted, on account ac-count of the submarine warfare, not only to maintain her agricultural production. pro-duction. but to increase it. To do this an active campaign was undertaken to place women on the land. This work is carried on under the direct supervision of their national board of agriculture. The organization is somewhat some-what similar to that found in our county agent organization. there being district agents, a county community with a county organizer and local agents in every county. The functions . of the local organizations are : first, to secure women land workers ; second, sec-ond, to train them ; and third, to find farms for them to work on. The work of obtaining volunteers has been carried car-ried on by means of posters, personal visits, meetings, competitions, and so on. As soon as a woman indicates her desire to take up work on the land, she must submit to a physical examination exami-nation in order that the committee' may be sure that she Is physically fit to endure. the strain of farm work. She is also examined as to her personality. In order to determine whether she can get on with farm conditions. Types of Practice Farms. After she has been accepted, she Is sent to one of the practice farms. These farms are of various types. In some instances they are agricultural colleges that have been turned over to the training women. In other instances, instan-ces, the women are gathered together In a home and. sent out to the neighboring neigh-boring farms to be trained by experienced experi-enced farm workers. In still other instances in-stances successful farmers have turned turn-ed their farms over to the county organizations or-ganizations to be used in training women, wom-en, the women living on the farm and participating In all operations. During the training period the workers are without any expense as far as their living Is concerned, and are furnished with a complete outfit, consisting of boots, clogs, leggings, breeches, hat, and two pairs of overalls. Work Undertaken. The most usual types of agricultural agricultur-al labor undertaken by the workers have been those connected with live stock and Intensive farming, such as growing mangel, raising calves, milking, milk-ing, care of live stock, etc. The period of training generally lasted four weeks. If, at the end of this time, the students showed sufficient skill, they were listed and efforts were made to place them on farms. However, before any of the women land workers were allowed to undertake farm work, the farm was inspected and suitable quarters were found for the workers. Their experience experi-ence seeihs to show that It is impracticable imprac-ticable to send the women out to work as individuals, but that they must be kept together.' As a result of this situation, situ-ation, usually one member of the group becomes matron of tbe party and general gen-eral chaperon. Another, more skilled than 1 1 m rest, becomes group leader or forewoman. Although many of the workers were fro'.i the well-to-do classes, class-es, they were compelled to accept ttie prevailing wage in tbe community and were required to do as much as the regular reg-ular agricultural workers for the sfioe pay. In order to Increase the demand for women workers, and to add Interest in this kind of work, competitions have I'l'cn held throughout the country. The competitors were Judged upon their ability to milk, kill and dress poultry, harness horses, hoe root-crops, drive a harrow, spread manure, trim a hedge, and drive a cart. Thus it Is found that our English-speaking allies have Increased their production under actual war condition |