During World War I, across America and on Long Island, many farm owners and farmhands, mostly men, were drafted to fight overseas. Others left their farms for better pay in defense jobs. When the U.S. entered the war in Europe in early 1917, England had been battling the German-led Central Powers for three years and was rife with food shortages. And in the U.S., despite the rationing that restricted food distribution, the country soon saw its ow…
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