Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-04-20
STATE COLLEGE
AIDS CROP MOVE
President Holland Urges All be-
partment Heads to Cooperate
for Greater Production

All departmental heads of the col
lese have been asked by President f.
o. Holland to assist in planning an
adjustment of the work of the insti-
tuition SO as to serve in the best way
the nationwide need for increased
food production. The plans include
close cooperation with the state de-
partment of agriculture.
Director w. S. Thornber has asked
the extension specialists in home eco
Monies, dairying. farm crops. boys
and girls club work. and the county
agents work to seek ways and means
of effecting increases and the con
seryation of farm production
| throughout the state.
State Leader r. B. Coglon is en-
route to Berkeley CAL, to the pre-
paredness council of agricultural Of
ticials of the western states which
was called by Secretary d. f. Hous-
ton.
Among the suggestions put forth
by the college are for increases in
the sowing of spring wheat and bar
ley, the blowing up of meadow land
for paintings of grain. particularly
OF corn, increased acreage of oats,
and extensive paintings of field beans
and peas, which are valuable as
human food and can be used for
stock feed.
Director Thornber states that
there will be a need for great guam
titles of sugar beet seed next year
and to meet this demand paintings of
sugar beets this year should be in
creased. An abundance of vegetables
should be raised it being par
ticularly advisable that every fam
lily should raise more than it can
consume and store the surplus by
canning or in other ways.
All brood sows should be saved
from killing and steps taken to in
crease the number. There should be
great increases in the amount of
poultry raised and it should be the
aim of every family in the country
to get as many eggs as possible into
Waterglass during the spring months.
T, J. Newbill, state leader of boys
and girls clubs, urges all families
to get out their old empty jars in
the cellar and fill them with some-
| thing -fruit, vegetables or meat.
After all the jars are filled, families
should turn to drying-drying fruits,
corn, peas, anything in the food line
that can be preserved by drying. He
says that now, as never before. peo-
pie should can meat-chcken. tur-
key, pork, everything in the meat
line. All garbage of the cities
should be seized upon and fed to
pigs. Soup stocks of all kinds should
be put in cans for future use. Every
ounce of farm manure should be put
into the soil to increase the product
i've power of the land.
The Extension Service. directly CO.
operating with and under instruc-
lions from the national government,
is already proving one of the most
Immediately helpful departm ents of
the College At a meeting OF its
staff called for April II, a program
of activities was formulated and GER
tain policies advocated by the gov
eminent were stressed. Among
these, especially applicable to the
state of Washington, the following
were emphasized by Director W. S.
| Thornber:
/. Increase OF production by
making use of all summer fallow
land for the growing of peas, pota-
| toes, field beans, and corn.
2. Increase of live stock by
breeding hogs, poultry, sheep, and
the elimination of veal calves.
8. Conservation of labor for the
production of crops by retaining eff
ficient labOrers.
4. Organization of garden clubs
and other effective bodies of the
kind
Such are few of the more
important lines of activity generally
to be recon mended.