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Re: two questions, now Women's Land Army



I believe that the Women's Land Army was a project coordinated by the
Agricultural Extension Service within the USDA on a national basis and
by the State Agricultural Extension Service in the Land Grant university
in every state.  In Texas at least the Agricultural Extension Service
compiled thick annual reports (well over 1000 pages in come years with
lots of statistics in many cases along with good narratives) to be sent
to the USDA.  A copy of each one was retained by the TAEX.  I suspect
that other Extension Services in the other states did the same.  Those
state wide annual reports undoubtedly contain annual summaries of the
activities in each state.  Each county in each state with an
Agricultural Extension Agent or Agents was required to prepare a local
annual report.  Those documents probably contain local statistics on the
Women's Land Army in each county in which the program existed.

As far as I know all the county agents's reports that existed between
1914 and 1944 were microfilmed by the National Archives a number of
years ago and are available on microfilm at the Archives.  The county
reports for Texas (and probably other states as well) were filmed in
alphabetical order by county in each year.  Thus one has to look through
the reports for each year to find all the reports for a given county in
any state.

As far as I know none of the reports after 1944 were ever films by the
National Archives.

I presume that there is a body of records within the total records of
the Agricultural Extension Service in the National Archives that
contains information on the national level of the Women's Land Army.





Dr. Charles R. Schultz, CA, SAA Fellow
Clements Professor and Clements Archivist
Cushing Library
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX  77843-5000
c-schultz@tamu.edu
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FAX 979-845-1441

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