Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — Preparing For Seed Stocks And Labor Surrey Week. [ARTICLE]

Preparing For Seed Stocks And Labor Surrey Week.

County Agent Stewart Learning i* one of the busiestxmen in Jasper county marking plans for this county’s part in the state-wide Seed Stocks and Labor Survey Week, Feb. 4 to 9. In addition to having ' this county to look after, because of the valuable work he has done in this county, he was chosen leader for the district composed of Jasper, White ana Newton counties. Meetings will be held in every county in the state before the date of starting the survey, when plans will be made for this work. Jasper was one of the first counties to hold such a meeting and to make plans for the survey. At these gatherings townships leaders are named aha they, in turn, select community leaders so revery two square miles m the townships wherein they reside. These community leaders make the acttual surveys, visiting everyfarmer in their respective sections and obtaining to give questions. When the desired information has been obtained, the cards are returned to the county headquarters where they are kept as a sort of information bureau. The figures then will be tabulated for the county and for the entire state. . Thus, a farmer who is short or seed corn for the 1918 planting season may find out who has a surplus. If no one* in the county possesses, it, he will be able to find out who in the nearest county does and at what price it may be purchased. Similar methods will be employed for seed for all the important crops and with the labor supply, the boy’s working reserve being used as widely as possible. This survey will be the most comprehensive every undertaken by any state and is the first big step m Indiana’s 1918 food production program. It will ascertain the exact needs of Hoosier soil tillers and provide a system by which these needs will be filled. Through this plan, it is hoped, the state will be able to solve its own agricultural problems. The work is being done to produce agricultural department and the seed stocks committee of the U. S. Department of Agricultural.