To organize Farm Units this Committee should: 
ist. Secure information concerning local conditions. This should 
include inquiry into the labor shortage on farms and gardens, the 
possible supply of workers, and the various organizations which 
might be called upon for assistance. 
2d. Raise money for initial expenses and to insure against loss 
the first year. The amount needed will vary, according to the scale 
on which the work is undertaken, from $100.00 in the case of a single 
small unit, to several thousand dollars where one or more large units 
are started and the preliminary work requires a paid secretary and 
field worker. 
3d. Canvass employers to determine how many workers may be 
needed. 
4th. Find a suitable site, secure house or tents and equipment. 
5th. Enroll workers and secure a competent head, and assistants 
if needed. 
6th. Arrange transportation, questions of wages, etc. 
The preliminary work of publicity among farmers and workers 
should be begun as soon as possible. 
Much help may be expected from Farm Bureaus and State Em- 
ployment Bureaus, State Colleges of Agriculture, Women's Colleges 
and Alumnae Associations, The Woman's National Farm and Garden 
Association, The Young Women's Christian Association, Women's 
Clubs, The National Women's Farm Laborers Association and many 
other agencies. 
Further information may be had from the War Work Council: 
Mrs. John E. Newell, 
Mrs. Robert C. Hill, 
Miss Delia W. Marble, 
Chairman, Bedford, New York. 
A Unit Plan for Agricultural Workers 
Purpose. To increase the food supply there is great need of more 
labor on farms. Women have demonstrated in Europe that they are 
able to perform efficiently almost every kind of farm work. In this 
country three types of women are available for such work. 
1. Educated women, such as college students and teachers, who 
wish to devote the long summer vacation to this form of patriotic 
service. 
2. All-round working women, strong but unskilled, who may be 
turned permanently to farm labor. 
3. Factory workers in the seasonal trades, thrown out of their 
regular employment in the summer, who would profit physically and 
socially as well as financially from a few months of farm work. 
