Our plans for the summer are : — 
1. To help our County Agricultural Agent in interesting young 
country women in field and garden work. 
2. We hope to organize Community Agricultural Service Clubs, 
Junior and Senior, with the object of making bigger and better 
gardens, and canning and preserving the maximum amount. 
We shall endeavor to stimulate in every possible way the interest 
of every one, but particularly women and children, in the production 
of food. 
The Weeders' Garden Club last summer actively supported 
four Community Canning Centers, the School Gardens Association 
and Vacant Lots Association. 
Separate members of the Club will continue all these branches of 
work during the coming summer; while the Club as a whole has 
joined with the Gardeners' Club in the formation and maintenance 
of a Farm Camp for women field laborers, following the plan of the 
Land Army Units. 
We have been given a large house with farm, garage, garden and 
fertihzers; and we have been loaned or given cows, pigs, chickens, and 
a horse and automobile. 
We have ten work-women already registered for the whole summer, 
who are at present working in preparing the garden, and we have 
several volunteer chauffeuresses. 
Later we hope to have from fifty to sixty girls to send in squads 
to various farmers and gardeners in the neighborhood. 
Officers of the Weeders are working in the Units and Recruiting 
Committees of the Land Army, in the Council of National Defense, 
handling the requests for new units, and offers of farmers and service 
that come daily to the Council. There is every reason to believe 
that with the help in preliminary financing, which the Finance 
Committee thinks possible, new units will be formed to meet the 
demand in the neighborhood of Philadelphia. 
In the death of Mrs. Frank N. Doubleday, the North Country 
Garden Club of Long Island has met with a great and irreparable 
loss. A Charter member and Vice-President from the first organiza- 
tion of the Club in 1913, she was its President from January, 191 5, 
to October, 1916. She did much to encourage the giving of prizes to 
school children for work in their gardens, and instituted the giving of 
plants and shrubs to public schools by owners of neighboring estates. 
