The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-21
FARMERETTESP PLAN
PORTABLE CAMPS
Likely to Operate Next Year
in Units Wholly Self
Supporting.
WILL HAVE OWN CHEFS
Hone to Relieve Farmers
Wives Told at Land Army
Conference.


Edith Dlehl Of Wellesley College drew
Yesterday at the upstate conference Of
,hs New York State woman's Land
army in Albany the farmers can plan
for an increased acreage In full conn.,
dence that farmerettes will plant. cult
yate and harvest tho crops. and what Is
more. that they will grow fat on the
Job.
Farrnerettes who have distinguished
themselves in Westchester and in Sum-
nit, n. j., and other districts where they
labored this summer, are estimated to
have gained on an average nine pounds
OF flesh per girl. They have, says Mrs.
william Plerson Hamilton, vice-presi-
dent Of the Woman's Land Army, hayed,
hoed corn. shocked wheat, ploughed,
planted, fed stock. weeded. driven
horses. run tractors, picked and canned
fruit and sawed wood.
Farmers Welcome Them Now.
Also they have insinuated themselves
into the conservative farmer mind. no
that now New York agriculturfsts arc
fairly ready to accept them a. q neces-
sary and even welcome part Of Uncle
Sans win the war campaign. And ac-
cording TO the plan Miss Diehl. who Is
director Of the Wellesley College train
ing camp for land army supervisors. un-
folded at Albany the farmerettes next
year will be organised on q regular
military basis.
The methods we are working out at
Wellesley" she said. will enable the
farmer to pick up his telephone. send
out an o call FOR farmerettes to
plough his fields or pick his berries or
Get In his hay and have the call an
svered at once by an emcient army OF
who will bring their own portable
the same with military precision, pro-
vide their chef and manage their house.
hold while doing the work he wants
done on his farm.
IF the Woman's Land Army il to
succeed It must be run according TO BUSH
ness principles, standardized in all par
tculars that govern the maintenance of
camps The camp plan will relieve the
farmers wife; no longer will that over
worked woman have to provide for the
hired men. Harvest time will no more
be the time of horror II was in the DAYS
when the farmers wife had to cook for
twenty extra men while the hay was
cot in.
And the camp plan Is ideal Tor far
merettes, because II gives them indie
pendence, and they can have awfully
GOOD times when their davis work /.
done.
We've Invented a movable unit at
Wellesley. There's q mess tent, Sleep
Ing houses. sanitary arrangements, in
cineraitng plant and cooking equipment,
all so compact that n can he niaced on
truck and hauled to wherever the far
nerettes are working and set up by
themselves"
Neednr Look Like Frumps.
,c.. Mat,
nust look hke frumps while hoeing and
way they shouidnt De as smart and trim
doesn't believe in overalls. holding that
they are not adapted to woman's form.
Well cut breeches are handsomer and
Just as efficient. she says.
She has designed . cloak which the
modern Maud Muller can throw over
her (possihlvI mud .fs,n.a unisorr, .,hsn
returning from work. And she adjured
Miss Farmerette always to be sure and
nave becoming necktie knotted around
her throat while on her way to and from
me nelds' II too warm while actually in
.ne neIds she can remove the necktie
shq hans u over the renee or on the
AeSst ousn,
Sor ana Mrs. Wnitman AMENDED the
60 enee IN Cnancehors ran ana well
elarsS ne me aeiesa'1s me Governor de-
On, w. ,a .e envi .ase .nIea.-
!. ~ vac alhef' anu tnat the iarmerette
"Th. go :.
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cue ne said. The Food and Agri-
s,d waloo s ot .he o.a.e ~ant