Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-06-14
WHO WILL THE
HARVESTERS Be?
Real Pinch For Farm Help
Is Coming
Mr.. Bartlett Would Like To Have You
Enroll For Service

luIti hlltl hluu}lHk INC laNul NNHetl'l
in cooperation with the County Agent
has the following to say
Farmers are making heroic efforts
to handle their land with shortage
of help, A favorable spring has made
il possible for them to prepare their
normal acreage A continuation Of good
weather will permit them to cultivate
these crops with their present help,
But no amount OF fair weather will
make il possible for farmers to harvest
their crops unless they can get extra
help,
"Whyi Because harvesting is a task
which must be done in very brief
time, A delay OF few days may ruin
an entire crop,
'Hay should be cut the first two weeks
of July The present number OF men
on farms will be unable TO cut the hay
by the middle of August In fact 1t
is admitted that some hay will remain
uncut due to a lack OF help,
Much wheat is growing in this
County, A shortage OF help at harvest
will result in much OF II being lost by
shattering when over.ripe, or damaged
by long exposure to rains after cutting,
"Of the entire labor required in car.
ing for a crop Of silage corn, over one
half is used during a few days at silo
filing Corn should be in the silo be-
fore heavy frosts, II also should be al
lowed to grow till practically mature
before harvesting Our short seasons
cause the end Of growth and the first
frost to practically coincide Hence an
enormous amount Of labor must be
done in few days,
with potatoes, nearly one.half Of
the total labor is required for digging,
picking up and hauling
From G5 to 70 percent of the total
labor required by the apple crop is
used in harvesting and marketing,
"The heavy demand for labor in har-
vesting and the brief period OF time dur
ing which harvesting must de done,
makes il imperative that every avail
able person with farm experience make
use OF that experience in this years har-
vests.
Let there be no misunderstanding
concerning the part that food will play
in winning this great war, Food must
be had, and it must be planned far in
advance. A failure at harvest time in
1918 cannot be remedied till 1919 Now
is the time to prepare,
Call up County Agent, Bartlett at
the Farm Bureau office and give him
your name and address, the farm work
which you can do, and the length of
time YOU can devote to it, Mr.. Bart
lett is in touch with the men who need
farm help, He will place you where
your work will help, Obey that i'm
pulse. Do it now"
Farm Survey Records
Last winter at the Salisbury Exten-
sion school and early last spring at Or
well, Assistant Farm Management De
monStrator, Lewis of the Extension
Service at Burlington and County Ag-
ent Bartlett took records of twenty-one
average farm businesses. These records
have been summarized at Burlington
and now are being returned to the in
dividual farmers by Mr.. Lewis and A
p. Beach, Assistant County Agent for
Addison and Chittenden counties.
1t is the aim in this farm manage
ment work to get large number of
farm records so that the summary will
represent the average farm for the
southern end of the county. This sum
mary furnishes a valuable piece of in
formation, as it gives in actual figures |
those given by farmers themselves the |
expense, gross receipts, net receipts of
the farm, and labor income of the far
mer on the average farm in this sec
ton of the county
Mr.. Lewis and Mr. Beach will visit |
each individual farmer who gave his |
record and explain to him where his
business varies from the twenty-one |
farm businesses taken as a whole. The |
farmer who is interested i'll this work, !
will keep his record, study it, and use |
1t as a guide the next year in planning |
to strengthen that part of his business
that has fallen below the average
Best Varieties of Corn
This week County Agent Bartlett will
finish planting fourteen corn variety
test plots. These corn plots have been
chosen near the highways in nearly eve
ry town, later as the corn comes on
toward maturity the demonstrations
will be posted, so that every farmer in
Addison County will have an oppor-
tunity to see for himself which of the
fourteen varieties of corn being tested
out side by side under similar condi-
lions viii give heavy growth of stalks.
Much more, an early maturing variety,
giving a heavy growth of ears increas-
ing the food value of the corn.
The Farm Bureau is carrying on
these tests with two aims in view" SAYS
Mr.. Bartlett:
"First-To determine the varieties of
'ilage corn that will give not necessarily
heavy tonnage per acre but the great
est amount of food value per acre.
"Second-To give the seed handlers
1f the County information, just what
of corn to buy Once the far
ners feel satisfied to use a few stand
ard varieties, the dealers of the county
IAN give him better service. When the
seed corn handling can be gotten on
oasis as hoped for, it will mean that a
great deal of money and bother will be
aved for the farmer. Go into a freight
house any day during the spring
months anywhere from one to a half
iozen shipments of seed for farmers
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