Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1918 — THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER [ARTICLE]

THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER

FARE CONDUCTED BY CO. „ AGENT LEAMING.

X Help for Corn Husking. The U. S.- Department of Agriculture has made the following announcement relative to the location of huskers for Indiana ecorn -Crop: "Thia Department will be very glad to co-operate to the fullest extent in getting men to husk the corn crop in Indiana, but in order that our co-opera-tion may be effective it is necessary that we know certain definite, tangible facts. In the first place, we should have a conservative estimate from the County Agricultural Agent of each county in dire need of men as to just what number they can get along with. Also - , we must know when they want the men and exactly what wages will be paid, and where the men are to be sent. It must also toe understood that the farmer will provide an adequate place to bosrd and room for any help he gets. After we get thia Information, which should come at once, we will then set forth publicity to the state as to what the shortage is and where. We will peal generally for men and we will our Community Labor Boards and through our Public Service Reserve organizations, request certain counties -to place their own men.. In other words, it seems entirely probable that certain counties needing 15 to 30 men can get

them locally, provided the proposition is put up to their County Council of Defense and to all their patriotic bodies with a thud, th other places, if necessary, we can arrange for the Community .Labor Boards, asking certain industries to lend some of their men to the farms for two or three weeks, which will help to put over the proposition. “You can appreciate all this information is necessary when you understand our method of' recruiting We have 15 field scouts. If wj send out any of these into a territory" to recruit for another territory these men must have all the facts; must know exactly where they are to send the men and they must be positively assured that when these men arrive that the County Agricultural Agent will be there to meet them and to see that the \ farmers are there to take the men out. We will, in all cases, wire the County Agent at the point we are recruiting for the exact number of men we will expect to send and at what time they wllj arrive. It will then be, hlsf duty to get tl)e farmers ready to take the men out. ' There must be no cases of where the County Agricultural Agent asks for men that he cannot positively place immediately, because labor is en--tinely too scarce to be handled in such a manner. We have here a Chifef of Recruiting and Field Forces and we have a svstem of clearance whereby it will be perfectly possible for usf urovided we get adequate information and co-opera-tion from the other end, to make an act-

ive campaign for corn huskers It would appeal to me that we should pick out four or five counties at a time,,to - concentrate on rather than to try to work the whole state at once. We would, very naturally, try- to pick out the counties that are sorest in need of help.” In order to avail themselves of any assistance from the U. S. Bureau of Labor, farmers depending on outside help should comply with these conditions at once. "; Apples for Everyone. ‘'Chautauqua county, N. Y., has a tremendous crop of apples. We have a number of shippers who are loading car loads in bulk and it is my desire to secure information as to apple market fo’ our fruit,” writes H. B. Rogers, County Agent, at Jamestown, New York. ■di Here is a chance for some enterprising Individuals to make a fair profit and do our county a griat deal of good. The shortage of the apple crop here is felt keeply Jjy the majority of the people and th,e interests of the community health would be served by anyone who would bring in this fruit and sell It at a reasonable, price. More Shorthorns. Leslie Gwin' made' a trip to Chalmers last week and returned with a well bred Shorthorn bull to head his- herd. This is reported'to be an excellent Individual and worthy of the class of .cattle being introbuced into this locality. The sale of Shorthorns .held on the‘D if. Yeoman farm last week averaged under |2OO per head. Much, of the offering was young and in poor flesh, and the returns were considered highly satisfactory. Wm. Hershman, of Walker township, was a heavy 7 buyer.

Mrs. Carl Kuntz and her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Lowe, went to, Hammond today where they will visit with the family of Charles W. Bussell, and from which place they will continue tdS Kouts where they will visit with the family of Walter Smith. Mrs. Smith and. Mrs. Kuntz are sisters and both are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Holmes. Mrs. Kuntz has been living at Alma Center, Wia., but her husband is now in the war service.

We mast elose oat oar big stock of general merchandise. Sale is now. on and you have the opportunity to bay staple goods at greatly reduced prices. AU must go,including fixtures. Sale closes Saturday evening, November 2. Wallace * Baugh, Parr, Ind.