Yesterday, at the Food Production Branch of the Board of Agri- 
culture, the Hon. Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton spoke of the great success 
which had attended the work of the land women, both part-time 
workers and land army. 
"The part-time workers have greatly increased throughout the 
country," she said; "they are the mainstay of food production, and 
this year there are 200,000 of them. The mobile women's land army, 
which was started early in March, during six months' work has had 
6,000 women in its ranks, who have been so carefully chosen that the 
percentage of failures has proved negligible. Any surplus not working 
we lend to the Forestry and Forage Department of the War Office 
and the Timber Supply Department, and they enjoy the work 
greatly. Both Departments use our selection boards. When the girls 
are employed on forestry they work behind the men, and live in huts 
and tents when there are no hostels available. They measure the 
trees for sleepers, saw them, and in some cases even fell them. The 
forage-girls do hay baling in groups of four, working with two or three 
soldiers imder a leader. All the women doing this kind of work are 
educated, and many of them have thrown up good billets for work 
on the land." Delia W. Marble, Chairman. 
Committee Reports 
The Committee appointed to encourage honest nurserymen 
expects to change its name to the Committee on Trade Relations. 
Its appeal to the American Society of Landscape Architects has 
met with a hearty response. The Chairman of our Committee has 
been invited to meet with their Committee on Trade Relations and 
a similar Committee of the Nursery Growers Association in New York 
on January 3d. No doubt vigorous action will be taken to start a 
campaign for the elimination of graft, involving many attendant 
evils, especially likely to become rampant in wartime. Nurserymen, 
landscape gardeners, employers, and employees are earnestly urged to 
co-operate with us in trying to stamp out this insidious practice. 
Rose Standish Nichols, Chairman. 
Committee on Honorary Award 
In spite of a generally expressed opinion that this was not a 
favorable time to collect the sum of $1,540 necessary for the design for 
a Garden Club medal, S539 has already been collected, and additional 
sums are promised. The medal will not, however, be ordered at pres- 
ent and it has been suggested that the money now subscribed be in- 
vested in Liberty Bonds. It is possible that under these circumstances 
others may wish to send subscriptions, the money to be used later for 
the medal. Louisa Y. King, Chairman. 
