Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1918-04-03
FARM MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS
" ACCUMULATED BY THE WAR.
How to Meet Them Suggestions BY
~ Professor Andrew Boss.
Alarm Labor.


Industrial competition and the draft
have made serious in roads on the
supply Of farm labor. Farmers are re-
fusing to enlarge their undertakings
and some are even hesitating to put
/ into crops the land they possess for
| fear that they will be unable to get
! help for the harvest. Fortunately good
prices for most farm products prevail
and wages for labor are not out of
proportion to returns from farming.
This should stimulate farm operators
since it insures good wages for their
own labor. ~'. 49,
Remedies-(1) Substitute, so far as
possible, machine for man labor. Ia
Larger machines and more horses
handled by one man. 90 Double up
on small machines. 1 Hang a harrow
section behind Il gang or tractor ,plow
? Hang harrow behind disk or drill
In preparation for or covering grain
etc. (c) Use hay leaders, bucks,
sweeps and stackers where volume of
hay warrants. (d) Shock thresh
where straw saving is not prime factor
(e) Dairy men should consider merits
of milking machine CO Make live
stock work for the farmer (a) Good
pastures for cattle. 90 Annual
pastures for hogs (cloyer, sweet clover,
alfalfa; oats and rape; rye, early corn
and rape). Co Corn to hog off in fall
| (d) Silage or bundle corn for winter
feeding. (e) Store feed supplies
where they are to he used and save
handling. (3) Train in early. supplies
of green help. (a) High school boys
and others from cities. (b) Women
and girls to milk. care for poultry, do
garden work and light field work: also
city women to clerk in stores. thus re-
leasing men for farm work. (c) Coax
out the retired farmers
B.-Farm Implements.
Increased demand for materials and
high prices for labor have caused an
advance of seventy-five to one-hundred
per cent in prices of implements. caus-
ing some complaint, though but little
real hardship in view Of increased
prices for production. Farmers have
not yet bought much new machinery at
the higher prices.
Remedies-(1) Repair and put in or
der the old machines; order repairs
early and avoid the rush, also loss of
time. when work is pressing. %
House properly. keep painted oil we'll,
and operate without forcing such ma
chimes as are used.
C.-Growth of Live Stock.
Grain feeds are too high priced and
too much in demand for human foods
to be used extensively or profitably in
ctr l.
made for highly productive stock or
for breeding animals of high value. 1t
would be very unwise to allow stock
raising to lapse seriously because it
may still be proftably conducted, and
there is almost sure to be large de-
mand for stock for export following
the close of the war
Remedies-(D Keep livestock large
~ on grazing lands, paying special at
tentiOn to pastures and meadows and
using what would otherwise be waste
land. GU Winter breeding stock large
ly nopen sheds on cloved hay. bundle
corn, corn silage. straw, and other by
products. (3)Carry feeding stock on
grass. waste products and cheap for
age till well grown and then short feed
to only moderate finish. "a Reduce
need for concentrate by growing
legume hay and forage. Soy beans
may we'll be grown with corn for silage
to save bran. shorts or oil meal.
D.-Increased Production.
>Remedies-This Year-1) Increase
the acreage if possible, especially of
wheat and rye. Production per man.
not per acre. the objective. CO Get
manure on land. 90 Clean and treat
seed grain for smut. (4) Test seed
corn. 90 Plant each crop in season
on we'll prepared land. 60 Double
crop where possible. as for instance
rape in corn, clover in grain, pumpkins
in corn, and squash in early potatoes ::
succotash for feed crop, wheat and
flax. etc.
In Preparation for Next Year.
CD Sow clover or sweet clover to
pillow in this fall. (2) Manure. kill
weeds and fall pillow.