00:00These are the areas where the farm health problem is most acute in this country.
00:24Without you, the crops will rot on the ground.
00:30In 1941, the farm ret program began and teenage girls in high school volunteer to work on
00:38farms and orchards to help in food production because men who had been employed on farms
00:44had enlisted for military service.
00:46The call went out and it was a desperate call.
00:56It was a wake-up call of what women could do.
01:02It was men's work to begin with, but there was no man around.
01:06It was very hard work and very, very few of us had any farming experience.
01:11We had to be strong and we were.
01:17We went because we could get out of chemistry exam and we would get away from the watchful
01:22eyes of our parents.
01:26The girls would cry and cry and cry at night because they were so homesick.
01:29But after they realized that they were going to survive, they decided that they were working
01:33as a team and they were going to have fun.
01:37We asked one farmer how he would have got along without these extra workers.
01:41He just said, I couldn't have done it.
01:45The war ended and my dad was ready to come home.
01:52It was such a joyous occasion.
01:54They really worked and they were helping with the war.
02:00No one had ever heard of the farmer ants and I think that's rather sad, don't you?
02:06Don't you?
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