The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-06-28
ESTABLISH BUREAU
FOR FARM LABOR

Every nation of agricultural inn
portance in the world is at war In
Europe thousands of farmers have
been called to the colors. Thousands
of the most productive acres in France
and Belgium lie waste, torn by ex-
ploding shells. The war has greatly
diminished the food supplies of our
allies. To the United States has come
the call to meet the deficiency.
And our farmers have responded
nobly. Everywhere they have put in
more crops than they ever grew be-
fore. Never before were so many
acres under cultivation in the United
States as there are today.
But more crops means that more
vest them Where will we get the ex-
ira labor to care for our larger crops
That is the problem which Nevada
| is trying to meet through the State
committee on food resources. That is
| the problem which the United States
department of agriculture is trying to
help solve by sending out farm help
specialists 10 the states, one of whom
has come to Nevada to cooperate with
l the State committee.
Many Things can be done to help the
| situation, but the biggest thing that
can be done. is tt eliminate the waste.
| Every year hundreds of farmers in
Nevada lose much time in hunting for
men. There are plenty of men want
ing work, but the trouble is to find
them. Every year thousands of farm
/ hands in Nevada lose many days look
| ing for work There are plenty of
farmers who need help, but it takes
many days of walking to find a man
who wants them at that particular
| time.
This loss must be stopped, and this
is the way the State committee on
! food resources and the United States
Department of Agriculture propose to
stop it,
In every town which forms the CEN
ter of farming region there must be
a 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 farmer will always know
right where to go to get men if there
are any to be found anywhere; and a
man looking for work will always
know right where to go to find it pro-
vided any farm help is needed any
where in the neighborhood This will
save tremendous amount of waste OF
time and energy. a waste which must
not continue if we are to properly feec
our men in the trenches.
The way to arrange this is to have
committee appointed for each local
ity to take care of the general plan
ming of the work. The committee will
choose some individual, usually local
storekeeper, perhaps a hotel keeper oI
a farmer who lives near the town, oI
some one else who will act the loca'
farm help agent, to whom the farmers
and farm hands can come. Most OF
the agents who have been appointed SC
far in Nevada are keepers of news
stores, selling papers, stationery, to
bacco, and the like. They are usually
glad to assume the work involved fol
the sake of the good it will do the
country and also for the added trad,
it will give them. The question O
who is to be the agent must be de
cided separately for each locality
however. Local conditions will deter
mine it,
/ The State committee on food re
! sources has had conspicuous sign.
: printed which it will be glad to sent
to any local agent to be posted arount
the neighborhood to direct farmers
! and farm hands to him.
! The farm help specialist sent her,
by the Department of Agriculture will
; be glad to make arrangements to e,
, to the different localities to relp ge
: to the different localities to help ge
needed. However. inasmuch as tn
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