The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-05-17

essential.
The committee, after very careful
consideration, decided upon the three
following as of prime Importance:
STORAGE-(1) With every avail
able acre being cropped this year our
total production will be very largely
increased over any previous year.
(2) Every effort is being made to
mobilize labor to cultivate and har-
vest these crops.
(3) Every present indication points
to the fact that transportation facili-
ties will be wholly inadequate to move
the crops after they are harvested.
Commercial storage facilities are so
small, compared with the total nor
NAL crop as to be almost negligible.
Therefore, if the increased crops that
we are growing and will harvest are
to be saved provision must be made
for storage facilities on the ranches
wherever it is possible to haul the
crop to market during the winter
months.
LABOR-The U. S. department of
agriculture, the State College, the
state department of agriculture, the
state university, the State Harvesters'
league and various other organizations
are making efforts to mobilize labor
with which to harvest the crops. In
order that these efforts may bring
practical results it will be essential
to know where the help is needed, how
much and when. The committee be-
lieves that the rancher can give the
greatest service to themselves by be-
ing prepared to- give this information
when it is called for.
Livestock Breeding Stock-Under
present conditions great deal of
breeding stock is going to market
which should stay on the farms to
help supply the growing demand for
livestock products. Government re-
lports indicate an actual shortage of
meat for even normal demand. This
committee believes that if farmers
realized the seriousness of this situa-
ton and were in possession of prac-
tical information for more economical
production, less breeding stock would
be marketed.
County Committee Acts
The following resolutions have been
adopted by the Central War Food COM
mittee of Benton county:
| WHEREAS, there is an alarming
scarcity of food material as evidenced
by the almost prohibitive prices de-
manded for the ordinary commodities,
and,
WHEREAS, the World War is Gre
ating heavy demands upon the food
supplies, by requiring such enormous
nous quantities, as millions of soldiers
and sailors must have for their nour-
isment, and,
! WHEREAS, tens Of thousands of
young farmers and farm hands are
enlisting in the army and navy, thus
reducing the farm forces and,
i WHEREAS, the only available sup
ply Of labor to take the place of these
men is the high school and upper
grades of the public schools, in which
there are thousands of young men and
boys, able to do farm service;
/ THEREFORE, be it resolved that
the school authorities of the State of
Washington be and are hereby petit
toned to use their best efforts to sup
ply the necessary help to harvest and
save all food crops, being grown in
this state, and that they encourage all
young men and boy students to en-
roll for membership in the Washing
ton High Schools Harvesters' league,
or some such other organization, Of
fering their services in this important
field of labor.
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED, that
it would be both patriotic and eco
nomical for the schools of the state
to remain closed until October first,
this year, thus enabling them to as
sist in completing the harvest of all
food materials, by using the student
labor.
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED that
this resolution be sent to the state
superintendent of public instruction,
to the county and city superintendent
and made public thru the press.
Conscripting Unemployed
WHEREAS, our country is now in
a state of war, and millions of men
will be called to leave the shops, fac
tories and ranches, to go to the front.
WHEREAS, if we expect to win
this war, we must keep the production