Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1918 — JASPER COUNTY WANTS 235 BOYS [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY WANTS 235 BOYS

For Farm Work, According to Requests Made Through Purdue In seventy-dive of the ninety-two Indiana counties farmers have applied for 11,337 boys between, 161 and 21 years of age for work this year. These figures were compiled by the seed stocks and labor survey conducted by Purdue university in co-operation with the United States department of agriculture. The number of boys asked for does not include extra harvest hands, nor boys for picking tomatoes, berries and fruit. Jasper and adjacent counties ask for the following number: Jasper, 235; Benton, 211; Lake, 90; Newton, 140; Pulaski, 60; Starke, 175; White, 151.