Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1918 — INDIANA STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE PUBLICITY [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE PUBLICITY

Indianapolis, March 2.—According to applications for boy labor received by the Indiana state council of defens4 and by various county agricultural agents throughout the state, it is estimated that not less than 10,000 Indiana boys between 16 and 21 years of age will be needed on Indiana farms this summer. Recognizing that the majority of these boys will necessarily come from towns and cities and therefore will be inexperienced in farm work, the council of defense has issued a bulletin entitled “Emergency Agriculture Classes,” which outlines a plan for teaching some of the rudiments of agriculture in a practical sort of way. School authorities, agricultural agents, farm implement dealers, agents for tractors, dealers in farm seeds and fertilizers, stock men, retired farmers, active fanners and livery men are all urged to co-operate with each other in . organizing such classes in all communities where boys are available. These boys will be placed on farms through the United States Boys’ Working Reserve, which during the week of March 18th to 23rd will conduct a state-wide campaign simultaneously with all other states in the Union for the purpose of enrolling as many boys as possible who will pledge themselves to substitute for men on farms next summer.