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Show Record Harvest ! 1 ." . y,K , ,1 f ' I ' f, "J S "J ; , . . THE MILLIONS OF ADDITIONAL ACRES of British farmland brought under the plow in the four years of war, have resulted this year in the harvesting of 12'2 percent more grain than last year. This means that British farmers and victory gardeners have produced more than two-thirds of Britain's food needs. This compares dra- . matically with the situation before the war, when two-thirds of Britain's food had to be imported. This result has been achieved with the help of the Women's Land Army, of whom more than 80,000 are now mobilized and work- j ing on the farms. Some of them are pictured above harvesting Britain's biggest wheatfield, which was formerly Mature land on the Sussex Downs. |