Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1918 — TO SURVEY NEEDS OF FARMS [ARTICLE]

TO SURVEY NEEDS OF FARMS

Government to Aid in Securing Tested Seeds and Libor. Acting under instruction from the State Council of Defense, Chairman Frank Welsh has caused to be appointed a committee to make a complete survey of seed stocks and labor needs on every farm in the county in order that seed and labor shortages may be filled and only tested seed used this year. The federal government has taken the matter of seed and labor supply in hand and as a first step finds it necessary to ascertain the exact conditions on every farm. The following men have been designated by Chairman Welsh for this important work: George Putt, Victor Babcock, Wm. T. Corey, John Eck, Wesley Fell, Harvey Rowland, Charles A. Welch, James Blake, Grant Culp, John Farrell, Chas. Farabee, John Farabee, Lewis W. Hunt, Howard Jones,Christ Hensler, Chas. Meadal, Wm. Ott, Thos. A. Porter, Moses Sigo, Charles Sigo, Dudley Tyler, John Teter, Fred B. Wagner, Harvey Williams. Harvey Sinser, D. W. Biddle, John Kolhoff, Thomas A. Reed, C. E. Maxwell, W. H. Wortley, P. H. Hauter, Stephen Kohley, Marion I. Adams, Chauncey Wood, James W. Amsler, Alfred Hoover, Tony Kanne, Joe Trueley, John Zimmer, Charles Schleeman, George Culp, Albert Duggins, Samuel Holmes, John Rush, Marion Freeland, Walter E. Kelley, Orville Lambert, E. P. Lane, Phillip Paulus, Erhart Wuerthner, W. B. Walter, T. F. Murphy, Oscar Weiss, Stanley Lane, Thomas McAleer, James Blankenship, W. B. Fisher, Walter Gilmore, John Sommers, George Foulks, Alfred Duggleby, R. E. Davis, Wm. Fitzgerald, Martin J. Tohen, W. M. Jeffers, George M. Sands, John Shirer, Wm. R. Myers, Orlan C. Minor, Thomas F. Malony. V. M. Peer. Wm. Stalbaum, Joe Salrin, C. M. Dewey, Henry C. Meyer, W. C. Dooley, T. Z. McMurray, Freeman Gifford, John F. Pettet, Wm. Middlekamp, A. P. Rice, W. A. Lake, Henry J. Hendrick, Isaac Knapp, John Bunning, Herman DeVries, Anthony Moolenaar, Frank M. Hart, Daniel Wolfe, Simon P. Chenoweth, Cornelius Evers, Jr., John Robinson, Wm. Tyler, Clarence Gilbranson, E. Lightfoot, Henry DeKocker, Wm. Grube, Jr., Hiram Crawford, M. J. Delanhanty, Joseph Hickam, P. O. Kennedy, R. H. Morehouse, Amos McDaniel, Sam Payne, A. S. Keene, S. D. Clark, J. C. Anderson, Wm. Mutchler, Malcolm Clark, John V. Myers, W. H. Marble, Earl Snick, Vest Austip, Warren Boyle, Laurence Snick, Henry Misch, Milo Michaels, Hiram Lang, John Rusk, Wm. Folger, Grant Davisson, Joseph Pullins, W. H. Pullins, Harry Gifford, Horace Daniels, Emmet Eldridge, Judson Adams, Warren E. Poole, Rollin Stewart, Virgil Hobson, Geo. Parker, Charles Erb, Frank Ringeisen, Walter Jordan, John H. Guild, Wm. Batchtold, John Wuerthrich, Wm. E. Bible, Max Coppess, Cep. Grogan, John P. Ryan, S. ;C. Robinson, James Stevens, Carl Toyne, H. J. Dexter, John E. Alter, John Guss, James L. Keever, Herman Schultz, David Yeoman, 0. S. Bell, Amos Alter, Charles Lakin, R. I. Budd, Jos. Kosta, James Wiseman. Three meetings of instructions have been arranged for these men. The first will be held at the office of the Washburn Grain Company at Remington, Friday, January 25th, at two o’clock, the next at the office of the County agent at Rensselaer, Saturday afternoon, January 26th, at 2 o’clock, and the third at the Bank df Wheatfleld, Monday afternoon, January 28th, at 1:30 o’clock. Committeemen have been instructed to attend the meeting most convenient for them. At these meetings full instructions will be given as to the methods and purpose of the government in this work, and a proper organization perfected. It is hoped that this move on the part of the government will clear up the seed stocks and labor situations, both of which are working against proper crop production.