Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1917 — Indiana People to Be Called To Aid In Food Supply. [ARTICLE]

Indiana People to Be Called To Aid In Food Supply.

Indiana has been called upon to strain herself to produce a greatly increased food supply because of ‘ the war. A state-wide movement under the ilieadersdiip of Governor Goodrich, has been started for increased food production as well as for conservation of the food supply of the state, and to this end the governor has sent out a call for each county seat in the state for this Saturday has been urged that the county agents be utilized and that the schools be Closed earlier this year in order, that the pupils may go home sooner and aid in the farm work, for which they wild receive full credit in their school work. Other recommendations follow: Put to work the 5,000 college students who will be turned out in June. Let the 5,000 college girls who come from Indiana colleges, take the places of the 5,000 men workers, and send the latter to farms and other producing industries. Get the farmer to plant more acreage of com and work for a larger yield per acre. Encourage girls and 'boys to raise pigs. Teill retired farmers-to go back and take charge of their farms. Ask the government to issue a request *oftabor to forego -the- eighthour'day in industries as a matter of patriotism. Encourage the home garden idea. Encourage the use of fertilizer to increase the productiveness of the soil.