New Britain herald., 1917-06-25
MORE FARMERS ARE
 NEEDED AT ONCE
Municipal Farm Must Be Culti-
 Vated to Insure Success

The large crop of potatoes planted at the Municipal Farm in Stanley Quarter are growing rapidly and al- ready over a score of the forty-three acres planted have sprouted and need immediate attention. Unless volun- teer farmers, men who have the real interest of the city at heart, come for ward in greater numbers than they have done thus far the crop will suffer for the want of attention or else paid laborers will have to be en- gagged. It is to the advantage of tho citizens at large that volunteer help cultivate this farm as far as possible for inasmuch as the potatoes are to be sold to the citizens atN cost it is evident that each additional dollar ex- pended in raising the crop will boost the price to the consumer just that much.
 On Thursday of last week there were three or four volunteer workers present and on Friday eighteen men worked faithfully. On Saturday however, there was distinct falling ofr and but two men appeared. The warm weather is forcing the crop along fast, and the weeds as we'll, % Chairman Tallard must have work men to hoe the potatoes at once. NOnSlO8CAOly signed their names as volunteers when the farm project was first introduced, but as yet very small percentage of that number have responded to the call.
 To Popula<ize Hoeing.
 The mayor and other officials inter- ested in the success of this farm are endeavoring to formulate plans to popularize working at the farm. It has been suggested that a score or more of local physicians. if they saw fit, could devote two hours each morning early, or late in the after noon to working on the farm in neu of playing tennis or. some other pas- time and thus at the same time get excellent physical recreation and do something for the government. An other plan is to interest lawyers and other professional men as we'll as 'cer- tain clerks and men who are able to spare the time, inasmuch as this farm Is . vast cooperative proposition 1t would seem that everybody who has the time would be willing to do something to assist in it's successful accomplishment. Even if . man can spare but two hours a day he can do considerable hoeing in that time and
 
 just that much. The farm committee is considering a plan to communicate with every man who volunteered to work on the farm this summer and to ask them to designate just what day each week they could best devote to this work, and then ask them to keep their pledge.
 Chairman H. s, Tallard. who has thus far 50 excellently managed the farm, is enthusiastic over the pros- poets of a bumper crop of potatoes but states that more help Is impera- tive. Already the advance guards of potato bugs are arriving and it will be but a short time before the spray ing machine will have to be used. To facilitate this work MT. Tallard plans to place a huge tank, or several bar rels aggregating about 100 gallons, in some central location and then, with the assistance of City Engineer w. H. Hall and his engineering force, 8 pump will be installed at the nearby brook and pipe laid to the tank. Thus 1t will be an easy matter to re- fill the tank on the spraying machine without loss of time.