... destroyed, the land is under wheat, and the grass-land in the foreground will be ploughed-up to increase the wheal supply of the country. LAND GIRLS AT WORK IN BEDFORDSHIRE The thrashing tackle is manned by members of the Woman's Land ...

... annually without increasing our own pig population of 2|- millions to any great extent. The Committee of Management of the Woman's Land Army Benevolent Fund has announced that the amount raised has exceeded £100,000, which was the target fixed for 1944. Up to ...

... American Woman on W.L.A. WE reproduce, by permission of Mrs. Margaret Drexel Biddle, an extract from her book, The Women-of England, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. It is taken from the chapter entitled Land Army. Mrs. Biddle ...

... the land and in their homes for she went places with an intensive desire to see things for herself she gave America in her broadcasts, her articles, and in her book The Women of England, the other side of the picture. Her description of the Land Army ...

... on the land calls for an unprecedented effort, to be launched within a few weeks. There is a known shortage of skilled male labour and much help is expected of the W.L.A. Recruits are coming in well but where are they Certainly not on the land, apart ...

... competition for man-power. Latterly, it has been much concerned with woman-power. Much is being made, at the moment, of the fact that 50,000 women are enrolled in the Women's Land Army. It is hoped that this number will be doubled by the end of 1943- This ...

... up and secured. W.L.A. RECRUITS have been coming in fast. Returns for April show that at the end of the month the Women's Land Army had reached a new record employment figure of 11,173, an increase of 1,41 1 on the March figure. A further 1,095 volunteers ...

... chunks of choco late, two of which were solemnly set aside for the dogs. Q (the writer's sister) says that she stayed with a woman in Edinburgh who bought a pound of pork sausages every week for her two pet dogs. And The Sunday Times reports that in Belgium ...

... most of us should think that we know, better than anybody else, what is good for our own land. The fact remains that some land is under-fertilised and that other land is over- fertilised. It is the job of County Agricultural Organisers to test soil, free ...

... Committee. Instead of the usual system of training girls for the Land Army on waste ground, East Sussex is assuring that, for every minute of their training, these girls are actu ally doing useful land work. They are arriving at the Marsh as raw recruits, and ...

... Members of Parliament arriving at Swaffham Prior 11 vase, a Committee Hostel which accommodates 65 members of the Women's Land Army ivorking on the Fens The Duke of Norfolk is welcomed by Alderman W. C. Jackson, J. P., Chairman of the Cambridgeshire War ...

... they like their charges. A good many of the girls have already had experience with animals while working in the Women's Land Army, and now give their sole attention to their favourites. I NO RELAXING in the afternoons. Every day after lunch there are ...