Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1918 — The Neighborhood Corner [ARTICLE]

The Neighborhood Corner

Department of Farm Welfare Conducted by County Agent Stewart Learning.

Help for Corn Husking’. The U. S.' Department of Agriculture has made the following announcement relative to the location of huskers for Indiana corn crop: "This 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 be understood that the farmer will provide an adequate place to board and room for any help he gets. After we get this 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 appeal generally for men and w'e will through 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. In 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 we 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 1 arrive that the County Agricultural Agent will be there to meet them and to see that the farmers are tlrere to take the men out. We will, in ail 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 will arrive, it will' then be his duty to get the 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 entirely too scarce to be handled in such a manner. We have here a Chief of Recruiting and- Field Forces and we have a system of Clearance whereby it will be perfectly possible for us, provided we get adequate information and co-opera-tion from the other end, to make an active 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.

I very- naturally, try tn pick out the 1 counties that are sorest in need ol help.' I’ .Ih . order 'to . avail - themselves of any , assistance frum the IT- S- Bureau of: Labor, farm* re 'depending on. eotsid'eI help' should comply with these condi- | tions at once. Apples for Ever joe*. “Chautauqua county. X. Y„ has a tremendous crop of apple®- We have a 1 number of shippers who are loading car loads in bulk and it is my desire to secure information as to apple market for our fruit,” writes H- B. Rogers. County Agent, at Jamestown. New York. Here is a chance. for some enterprising individuals to make a fair profit and do our county a great deal of good. The shortage of the apple crop, here is felt keenly by the majority of tie people and the 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 H. Yeoman farm last week averaged under S2OO per head. Much of the offering was young and In p»r fiesh. and the returns were considered highly satisfactory. Wm. Hershman. of Walker township, was a heavy Smye-r.