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Show Volunteers Wanted for 'Farm Aides' Girl Groups to Supply Nation's Farmers With Harvest Help This Year Farmers this summer may look to some fifteen thousand young girls for the harvest-time harvest-time help that is normally supplied by men. Cognizant of the acute labor shortage in farming areas, Camp Fire Girls, Inc., the Girl Reserve Staff of the Y. W. C. A., and Girl Scouts, Inc., have collaborated collab-orated on an instruction booklet book-let entitled "Farm Aides: A Guide for Group Leaders." Defined as "a girl between the ages of 14 and 18 who works on a farm, together with other girls her age, under the leadership of Camp Fire Girls, Girl Reserves, Girl Scouts, or other responsible community com-munity organization," a Farm Aide should, notwithstanding, be used only when adult labor cannot be obtained. ob-tained. Girls will work only after health blanks and parents' consent blanks have been procured and satisfactorily signed and after standards stand-ards of health, safety, wages, hours, leadership and supervision have been met. Living conditions for Farm Aides will be arranged according to the location of the farms. Where cities are nearby and convenient, girls may be transported from their homes in "Day Hauls." In other instances in-stances they will live in established camps, temporary camps set up by a local sponsoring committee or private pri-vate organization, or in camps loaned by the government. Based on a Farm Aide activity report re-port from the summer of 1942, expectations ex-pectations for work in 1943 include berry picking; picking apples, grapes and cotton; gathering peas, beans, etc.; digging potatoes; weeding; weed-ing; cleaning vegetables; and haying. hay-ing. In communities where farm women are needed for work in the fields, girls may perform such chores as clearing stones from the fields; cleaning barns and stables; cleaning poultry houses and food bins; feeding and watering stock; .cooling and handling milk; gathering gather-ing eggs; sorting, cooling, candling, and packing eggs; washing separator, separa-tor, milk pails, and cans; clipping hedges; painting; simple repairs; and stacking wood, tile, brick, etc. In the household girls will be trained in bed making, carrying lunches and cold drinks to the fields, caring for children, the elderly, and sick, cleaning house, washing clothes, washing and drying dishes, running errands, ironing, mending, picking over berries for canning and selling, preparing meals,1 sterilizing canning jars, and table setting. For their labor Farm Aides will be paid according to the wage standards stand-ards of their communities. It is stated by the combined staffs of Camp Fire Girls, Girl .Reserves, and Girl Scouts that their greatest need is for volunteer leaders of Farm Aides, since girls cannot work without leadership and supervision. Women are urged to get in touch with the local office of one of the three organizations. |
