The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-19
.FARMERETTES WILL
HARVEST COIN TODAY
Women Inaugurate Drive for
Funds for Establishment
of Training Schools.

Girls are urged to get out and bark
for the New York State woman's Land
Army. Inc. II they cannot fight for
their country they are asked to ballyhoo
for 1t. The war can no more be won
without food than 1t could without men
and bullets. and to show the farmers
right now that they need not be afraid
to plan a large acreage for next season,
that the women will be ready to help
them plant and till and harvest. is the
object of the drive for members and
money that the Land Army is starting
to-day.
Volunteers are needed for the booths
that will dot the city. Most Of the
booths are already in place. for the War
Savings Stamps booths will be used to
the extent Of forty-fve in Manhattan
borough alone Some w. 8. S. workers
will aid In the drive, but many girls are
needed besides, both for these forty-five
booths and for others that will be put
up in The Bronx. Brooklyn. Richmond
and Queens. So go up to the Land
Army headquarters in the Biltmore. first
this important ten day drive.
There will be no lack OF potential
farmerettes, say members Of the State
campaign committee and those familiar
with the success of the forty camps
from which the Land Army sent out
Maud Mullers to work for farmers this
summer. Women are taking up the hoe
and the rake-v-or rather they are mount
ing the tractor engine and electric har-
ia sl,,ul
Training Schools Are Needed.
But money Is needed. 1t is needed to
establish three training schools this win
ter, where girls intending to be farmer
cites next summer can acquire the first
principles and harden their muscles be-
fore going into the fields. Heretofore
they have plunged right into days work
on the farm without training, or only
such as could be given in the camps. and
they made good this summer. 1000 OF
them. But 10000 are wanted next sea-
son. and 1t is felt that they can do even
better. with less pain to their muscles, IL
they receive al preliminary intensive
training before starting out
Sixty thousand dollars is needed to
open the schools and the two hundred
camps the army intends TO have in 1919.
II any girl or young woman cannot go
out and farm for Uncle Sam here is her
chance to farm for him while remaining
at her desk or wherever fate has placed
her. BY contributing 81 she will be
listed as IA tiller in the Land Army.
Better still. she may be planter by
payment OF S.. For $25 she can have
the pleasure of being in the cleaner
class and 800 will put her in the proud
rank of harvester. One million support
ing members is what the army is start
ing out to get.
Ulster County Passes Quota.
The State has been divided into dis
tricts and sub-districts for the drive.
with quotas assigned 10 each. and II Is
a tribute 10 the usefulness Of the farm
erette that agricultural regions. where
women were employed this summer are
first in completing their quotas. With
the drive not officially opened and New
York city just getting under way, u
ster county, Albany county and other
rural localities are well on in the
pleted yesterday Its quota of S6.02J.
Albany county ia marching along well
toward its goal OF $l7.60O. And so on.
The Land Army headquarters shows
many letters from farmers testifying TO
the ability OF the farmerettes they EN-
ployed this year. G. Howard Dawson,
editor OF Field, who has an estate in
Duchess county, says he gets the best
results with AN equal number of men
farmers and women, farmers He didn't
state whether they work in pairs but
he expressed the highest opinion of girls
on farms They may not be able to do
the hardest work at first. he says, but
they soon learn how to employ their
muscles so as TO perform laborous
tasks without tasking them too much.
A dairy farmer writes that he wants
several women in his dairy all the year
round.
It is curious thing that the re-
cruits for the camps do not come
chiefly from the ranks OF the working
girls Shops and factories contribute a
small minority. College girls enlist in
the greatest numbers. and In the camps
this summer there were members of all
professions. from opera singers to ste
nographers. typists and telephone OPP
orators.
All over the State four minute men
will be making speeches to-day for the
Woman's Land Army,