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MUCH FARM WORKNOW BEING BONE BYAMERICAN WOMENY. W, 0. A. LAND SERVICE COM* MITTEE GIVING SPECIAL ATTENTION TO NEW PROBLEM*Women are doing a largo share of the farm work of the country, according to officials of the Young Women’s Christian Association, which has maintained special secretaries to assist women and gihis »o engaged* High School girls in New York are threshing grains and gathering fruit* «Polish women in New Jersey ^kave picked the fruit crop; college girls in Ohio have been doing general farm work, while both girls and boys in the state o? Washington have been gathering fruit.Recruiting' farm labor is not a part of the work of the Young Women'sAssociation, but it has sought to aidthe women and girls engaged in it by showing the best ways of caring for farm laborers and their children. The Association seeks to lift the responsibility of housing and feeding the laborers from the 'fanners' wives.The Association plans lo continue its work of Oils kind through tho Land Service Committee, and. in. Instances where there has been a demand for labor it has investigated certain occupations where business is not so brisk in the fall, with a view of finding where additional labor rmiv be ‘secured.
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Lockhart Post Register
Lockhart, Texas, US
Thu, Oct 24, 1918
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