The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-15
BOYS ARE WANTED
TO WORK ON FARMS
Extraordinary Efforts to
Furnish Vermont Farm
ers Help This Year
TRAINING CAMP
AT LYNDON CENTER
Bows VIII Be Tried Out Two Weeks
at the Agricultural School and Then
Assigned Places to Work in Which
They Are Fitted.

The commissioner of agriculture is
making extraordinary efforts to furnish
10 Vermont farmers farm labor for the
coming season.
There are in the cities and large
towns of Vermont many boys between
the ages of 10 and 90 years who should
be available for work on Vermont
farms The department of agriculture,
through its labor agent, F. II. Bick-
ford, proposes to cooperate with the
state department of education in To-
eating, training, sorting and distribut-
ing these boys. The commissioner of
education has placed at the disposal
of the department of agriculture the
Theodore y. Vail agricultural school
and farms at Lyndon Center. This is
to be known as Camp Vail, and is to
be a training camp for boys enlist
ing in the service of Vermont.
Through the principals of the local
high schools the need of farm labor Is
10 lee put before the boys, and rep
rcseutative of the Vail school is to
Nllfth Ut4O4t Inv SlultlLtH VI tNSl.s
large high school of the state. When
the boys Of Vermont learn of the vital
need, it is believed that a large number
will offer their services to the state
and to the country.
These in charge of this proposition
realize that not all boys can be efficient
1T farm work. 1t is, therefore, pro
posed To take those boys who offer their
services to the Vail school at Lyndon
Center for a period of two weeks. Here
the boys will be tried out. sorted, and
in small measure trained for farm
work. They will be under the eyes of
the instructors for two weeks. Dur
inc this time they will be carefully
studied and tested by actual farm
work. A certain amount of instruc-
tun will be given them and, most of
ALL the need for their best and most
conscientious effort this summer vii
bc put before them.
II is not expected that these boys
will be skilled farm laborcrs, but it il
believed that BOYS who show signs oi
ambition to work. and certain hand
mess at farm operations can be So
; lectcd and made available for Vermont
farms,
Upon the completion of their tria
period at Camp Vail they viii b,
/ placed in service among the farmers OF
the state by the state labor agen'
through the country agents, or will bt
held at their homes in reserve for farm
services later on.
Ii the boys of Vermont will prov,
equal to their opportunity for service
and If the farmers Of the state vii
take these boys upon their merits, ant
will try to help in the project, it vii
be possible to utilize in the produr
tion of food n labor force that woul,
tothcrWisc he idle.
There are to he three camps with
maximum of 80 boys to each camp
! The dates are as follows:
& First Camp, May 20 to June /.
Second Camp, June > to June l..
- Third Camp, June l. To June %,
The only expense to the boy is hi
G carfarc to T.vndonville All other ex
z penses viii be borne bv the state.
Every effort win be made to place tn
boys in the most desirable farm homes
and their welfare viii be looked aft
or during the summer months.
laltdlN nave III TINS Schene an OF
portunity OF giving their sons chanc
to be Of useful service, to do thei
y share in the most important operatio
( Of the war; aud to get the cxperienc
4 of a summer on n farm, with its health
3 bringing, outdoor life.
Fun particulars can be obtained b
& writing r. II. Bickford. state Labc
4 Agent, Bradford, Vermont, or r. {
K Reynolds Director Theodore y. Va
\ Agricultural School and Farms, Lyl
y donvillc. Vermont
There is no excuse for an idle TO
II this summer! Camp Vail is ready f,