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From Weeds to Wheat

... 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 ...

Up and down the 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

... 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 SPORTS WOMAN'S PAGE

... Works, Birmingham. The Army's need for horses. The Pinckard remount depot at Oh idd in (J fold A good while before war was thought of Ml-. George H. Pinckard, of Combe Court, Witley, made a gift to the War Office of 450 acres of land, together with kennels ...

The Sports Woman

... unemployment and invalidity. However, if the science of aviation is brought to a practical issue, such as dropping explosives on armies and cities, war would of a certainty be stopped, since modern civilisation could never brook such wholesale carnage as must ...

An American Woman and the W.L.A

... 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 ...

THE SPORTS WOMAN'S PAGE

... Alexandra, the Princess Royal, Princess Victoria, and Princess Maud. After all our women have done and are doing, the Amazon Army of Russia are going to do more and engage in the actual fighting. No doubt there are thousands of British women who would like ...

THE SPORTS WOMAN'S PAGE

... away the dog- or cat from its food. The picture comes from South Wales. A SCHOOLGIRL ON THE LAND. A FOURTEEN YEAR-OLD GIRL WHO IS ENROLLED IN THE WOMEN'S LAND ARMY, AND WHO HAS ALREADY WON 1HREE PRIZES FOR AGRICULTURAL DEMONSTRATIONS IN CORNWALL. ...

THE SPORTS WOMAN'S PAGE

... and 1 hope all real workers had a holiday, and a nice one. The seaside is always easily at tainable in this great little Eng land of ours, and at Easter I think it exercises its recupera tive powers so as to do a great deal in a short time. A well-known ...

THE SPORTS WOMAN'S PAGE

... and Countess Torby, who was very busy selling, surrounded by a little barricade of blue hydrangeas. The Duchess of Futher- land and Lady Lanesborough took refuge in her stall for a while before facing the crowd again in the wake of a stalwart Special ...

THE SPORTS WOMAN'S PAGE

... who are temporary exiles in England. (See article on this page.) A WOMAN HORSEBREAKER OF PHILADELPHIA. MISS BETTY BROWN MASTERING A WICKED ONE. Miss Brown, who claims to be the only woman horse-breaker in the world, and has an establishment at Swarthmore ...