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Employment Service enrolled 10,000 New Jersey high-school pupils for farm work, recruited farmerettes for a land army, welcomed 127 women to vegetable and berry farms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gypsies, carhops, farmerettes and Hindu goddesses have all been the Look, more or less, at one time or another.
From Time Magazine Archive
The young chicks clustered together in the chicken yard and were driven inside the house by the persuasive “s-sh’s” and waving hands of the concerned farmerettes.
From Natalie: A Garden Scout by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
They harvested crops without enjoying the picturesque title of "farmerettes" and they canned and preserved for the wounded and the prisoners of war.
From History of the United States by Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin)
Many farmers and farmerettes are canning meats of all kinds all over the country and there is never a can lost.
From Every Step in Canning by Gray, Grace Viall
