Farms

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By 1915 Germany formed a naval blockade, forcing Britain to switch from imports to purely domestic agriculture as their only source of food which increased the wages of farmers. Yet by 1916 Britain introduced conscription which sent young men, including most farmers, to the military. As a result, women and the elderly had to not only pick up the slack at home but had to keep an entire nation from starving.
“We must not only feed our Soldiers at the front but the millions of women and chil