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  1. Organization founded 1916 for the recruitment
  2. of women to work on farms during World War I.
  3. At its peak in Sept 1918 it had 16,000
  4. members. It re-formed June 1939, before the
  5. outbreak of World War II. Many `Land Girls'
  6. joined up to help the war effort and by Aug
  7. 1943, 87,000 were employed in farm work.
  8.