Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1917 — GIVE FARMERS PRACTICAL AID [ARTICLE]

GIVE FARMERS PRACTICAL AID

If ad! the gratuitous advice tendered the farmers since the food crisisdeveloped .were, compiled in on® work, the Encyclopedia Brittanies would not hold it. Possibly there was some sound sense in portions of It. Certainly the major portion of it has been the merest drivel. It is not altogether a surplnssage of unexpert advice that the farmer needs. If there Is a class of men in this nation today who are really familiar with every phase of their profession, i*. is the farmers. And it is often with a feeling of amused contempt that they read .the senseless vaporings of . some of. the wiseacres who essay to instruct them. What the farmer is in dire need of right now is-fmore man ..power— * man power to put into effect the plans he is perfectly capable of formulating and carrying out if he has agents to do his bidding. Let.

him be ever so intelligent—and as a rule he IS a "person of sound sense and reason—he simply CAN NOT cultivate a hundred-acre farm by himself. Biit he” can utilize a thousand acres if he has the man power with* which to do it, for he already has the brains. i We should make no mistake in fhis matter. With practically the world to feed, if this war is won the farm.ers will play an important part in the winning, and all the advice from those slackers who have nothing else to give is not going to help one whit. “ChuC’ the advice gnd offer him yOrk-L-good sound muscle and sweat—and tke farmer will feed the world and do his “bit” toward winhing the war. The most- obvious fact to the farmer is that, in the approaching dra't and mobilization, the first army to be raised should be an army of the furrows, and that army should be brought to, the furrows from other fields of work —or idleness. And at no time will this need be more pressing than on the day of harvest. The average farmer can extract most of the advice he needs just now from a long life of experience. What will be rhost effective now is bone and muscle, backed by a willing mind -and an intelligence that even, approaches his own. Get the man power. The farmer will do the rest.