The Pulaskian., 1917-08-17
II Will Equal Two Bushels to, Every Man, Woman and
 Child in the Land.
STAPLE FOODS TO ALLIES
Motto This Year Is "Eat an Ami. Send Riscuit"-UnusuaI Need For Handling crop-May R.
 Short of Help.

Vp VI apples. If equals two bushels to every man. wom an and child in the country. Tn orda. to send as much staple food as noss, ble to our fighting allies. Amar,coaa are urged to use as many apnlas as possible. The motto this year is oEot an apple and send biscuit.a
 War conditions also confront +ha apple growers, for there is a scaro,ts of pickers, and careful preparations must now be made to see that tbis crop is all safely harvested and mt into storage. Now is the time to ho gin organizing picking crews in every apple growing section. A survey os the situation shows that the farmos will need cooperation from business men in the towns and cities ronna about at which he trades. and which have just as great an interest in tbis crop as the farmer himself. This ,o emergency organization work to ba taken up immediately by chambers of commerce, boards of trade, state and county councils of defense, and hnsi. ness men generally.
 The labor supply to harvest tbis crop exists right in the cities adiacent to the apple orchards in most cases but the draft and demands of fac. tories and railroads for labor hava disturbed the normal supply of work. CTS upon which the farmer usually draws, and it is necessary to recruit new kinds of workers. People who have never regarded themselves as an. pie pickers may this year be asked to go to the orchards and help get in the crop for patriotic reasons.
 The organization work should take the form of an immediate survey of labor resources to see where picking force is to be recruited. Stores and factories can often release clerks and workmen for this service if notified in time. Families who would like week or two of vacation in the country with light, healthy outdoor work at satisfac. tory wages, may also be induced to join the picking army. It has been sug- gested that the schools might be open ed later this year so that boys and girls can be sent to the orchards, but this will not be necessary in all cases. One very good source of pickers can be found among the women's organiza- tions of this country.
 Much is heard about the scarcity of labor, but there is not as great scar city as most people imagine Workers upon whom the farmer depends in or dinary times have simply been shifted into other occupations and war c0ndi- tions demand that business men step In, locate other classes of workers who can be shifted to the orchards for this emergency and see that the farmer has plenty of help.
 The principles of careful fruit pick ing are very simple, and easily under stood. If the farmer can start with two or three experienced pickers and spend little time explaining good picking methods to his volunteers ne should get excellent results for these volunteers, while new to the work, VIII also be people of good average lntelh- gence, and the war emergency will ap- peal to their interest so that they VIII be more than ready to help harvest the crop skillfully.
 Apple growers are advised to get ID touch with the business organizations in their nearest town, ask that help De given ill securing piekers and report the number of pickers needed by thenn- selves. One of the greatest ditticul- ties in organizing harvest hands TOT any crop is that of gathering accurate information as to how many helpels are needed on each farm and Tn eacn township. For lack of such intorma- tion 1t very often happens that one township will be handicapped because 1t is without sufficient helpers ana township twenty-five or thirty mics away will have surplus ot workels' By ascertaining in advance Just ho" many workers will be needed in each locality, business organizations VIII pe able to recruit sufficient force anu there will be neither scarcity nor sur plus in any section.
 This years apple crop calls TOT spe, cial methods of handling. The size o, the crop makes it necessary to sen. only the first-class fruit to market anu to see that all seconds and cuiis ais sold in bulk around home or worheu up into by-products. There must ~ great care to see that apples are lo. exposed to the heat or outdoors al'.- picking, but are properly houseu temporary storage places on the larin and carefully cooled. The searelts oi pickers will probably make 1t neces sary to pick and house the crop nlS, .,, and grade and pack it afterwards, ,,, au directions for handling the fruit "in be published later.
 The great big task immeuia'eis ahead is that of securing pichins force. and in this work the DusineSs man and the farmer are co-operas,n.s to an extent never known before. 1n's fs . war cron. It will be harveste*|