The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-04-18

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A COMMUNICATION.
Tyndall, S. Oak.
Dear Friend:-
Tho I am trying to send a copy Of
this letter to every farmer in Bon
Momme county, Il want you to feel
that this is q personal note to you
from me. We have gotten start
ed late in the year and probably will
be unable to hold meetings where we
could get acquainted and plan work
which we will try to do before seeding
and planting season is over, so ! am
taking this opportunity to let you
know that I am on the job, that am
at your service and want to get ac-
quainted with you, your family, with
your neighbors and with your COM.
munity.
don't want you to feel that have
come into Bon Honme county to tell
you how to farm and how to feed live
stock and how to live and all that sort
of thing, far from it, for I know that
you folks know those things far better
than /.
But do want to help you solve the
problem that come up while you are
working out our plans. 1t is my bus
mess to help farmers of Bon Homme
county to answer the call that comes
to every American farmer, the call
for more food. So if / can help you
to find hired man, to find some good
seed corn, to get seed corn, to get the
services of a good stallion, to stop an
outbreak of hog cholera in your herd
or in your community, or to save any
other animals from disease, or per-
haps l can tell you how to get rid of
certain kinds Of weeds, or to stop the
damage done by some insects on your
crops, or to increase the yield per acre
of your grain or corn or potatoes, or
it might be that you want to organize
a Farmers Club, a Boys and Girls
Club, or Community Club. If can
be of any help to you in any of these
things or in any other things that
have to do with the business of farm
ing, please feel free to use me; write
me or just step to the phone and call
Joe Smith at Tyndall, and if necessary
I'll come to your farm as soon as pos
sib1e or I'll write or phone you the in
formation as soon as can obtain it.
just now you perhaps realize the
problem of getting good seed corn is
facing the farmers of the corn belt.
There is little 1916 corn in the country
and VERY LITTLE OF THE 1917
CROP rs FIT FOR SEED AT ALL
THRU THE BETTER SEED COM
MITTEE we are trying to help every
farmer in Bon Homme county to Sc
cure good seed corn enough to plant
every acre that he is able to tend, SC
in filling out the seed corn blank
please state facts for we intend to
classify this information and post il
in convenient places over the county
or send it out to farmers if they de.
sire it.
i 1t has been suggested to me that
T the corn acreage and the amount Of
stock on the farms would be cut dowr
this year on account Of the shortage
Of labor. I hope this will not be thu
case, for we need the corn and live
stock. AMERICA NEEDS IT TC
J, WIN THE WAR, and there promise.
. to be good market for any surplus
that we might have and so the Labo.
4 Committee with Mr.. Dennis Murphy
Of Tyndall, as chairman is going t
try to procure help enough for tn
farmers Of Bon Homme county t.
take caro- Of full crop; Of course W
might not be able to do this in ever,
case, but we'll do our best. So il
! filing out the Labor Blanks we agail
!, ask you to state facts, that we ma,
know just what is needed and will b
needed in the way of labor this season
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