Popular Land Girls
The highest possible praise of the land girls begins to appear in the local Press from one side of the island to the other, and different qualities are selected. The Yorkshire Post, for example, recently published a letter detailing the skilful handling of six score of pigs and other animals by a land girl, who became an expert in the feeding of different classes of stock. This girl did not plough; but high approval of both the skill and energy of land girls in ploughing has been expressed in Essex, in Oxford and indeed many other counties. Some of them have been at work in remote Western farms, where a tractor and a plough-woman have nzver before been seen. In general, it may be said that women have always done yeoman work on the small farms in the West. They have either done nothing or have been confined to the poultry-yard in the Eastern half of England. The war is rapidly destroying the absurd idea that it is unladylike to take a turn on the land. Some, at any rate, of the land girls nurse the ambition to become farmers when the war is over.
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