The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1917-07-06
Labor Scheme
Explained

Europe lnOuSdnuS Oh IdTmeTS nave
been called to the colors. Thousands
of the most productive acres In
France and Belgium lie waste, torn
by exploding shells. The war has
greatly diminished the food supplies
of our allies. To the United States
has come the call to meet the de-
iciency
And our farmers have responded
nobly. Everywhere they have put in
more crops than they every grew be-
fore. Never before we're SO many
acres under cultivation in the United
States as there are today.
But more crops means that more
men must be had to tend them and
harvest them. Where will we get the
extra labor to care for our larger
crops.
That is the POLLEN which Nevada
is trying to meet through the State
Committee of Food Resources. That
is the problem which the United
States Department OF Agriculture is
trying to help solve by sending out
Farm Help Specialists to the states,
one OF whom has come to Nevada to
cooperate with the State Committee.
Many things can be done to help
the situation. but the biggest thing
that can be done, Is to eliminate the
waste. Every year hundreds OF
farmers In Nevada lost much time In
hunting for men. There are plenty
Of men wanting work, but the trouble
is 10 find them. Every year thous-
ands of farm hands in Nevada lose
many days looking for work. There
are plenty of farmers who need help.
but 1t takes many days Of walking to
find man who wants them at that
particular time.
This loss must be stopped, and this
Is the way your State Committee on
Food Resources and the United States
Department OF Agriculture propose
to stop it.
In every town which forms the
center for farming region, there
must be man to whom farmers can
come and whom they can tell how
much help they will need and when
they will need it: and to whom men
looking for work can come and find
who wants farm help. So a farmer
will always know right where to go
to get men of there are any to be
found anywhere; and a man looking
for work will always know right
where to go to find it provided any
farm help is needed anywhere in the
This will save a trem-
endous amount of waste of time and
energy, and a waste which must not
continue II we are to properly feed
our men In the trenches.
The way to arrange this is to have
a committee appointed for each To-
cality to take care of the general
planning of the work. The COM
mittee will choose some individual,
usually a local storekeeper, perhaps
a hotelkeeper or a farmer who lives
near the town, or some one else who
will act as the local farm help agent,
to whom the farmers and farm hands
can come. Most of the agents who
have been appointed so far in Ne
vada are keepers of news stores, SELL
Ing papers, stationary, tobacco, and
the like. They are usually glad to
assume the work involved for the
sake OF the good It will do the
and also for the added trade
1t will give them. The question of
who is to be thine agent must be de-
cided separately for each locality,
however. Local conditions will de-
It.
The State Committee on Food Re-
sources has had conspicuous signs
printed which It will be gland to send
to any local agent to be posted in the
neighborhood to direct farms and
farm hands to him.
The Farm Help Specialist sent here
by the Department of Agriculture will
be gland to make arrangements to go
TO the different localities to help get
things started wherever his hedp is
needed However, inasumch as the
should be started at once
everywhere and the Farm Help Spec
lalist can be at only one place at
time. 1t is urged that the local people
start the work wherever possible,
In to the Farm Help Special
Ist at Reno. for any suggestions they
may want and being sure to tell just
what has been done.
As soon as the work Is started in
each locality, the office at Reno will