The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-08-15
Council of Defense Asks
Men on the Farm to Take
New Hours of Work to
Conserve Labor now.
WHEAT TO FEED The COUNTY
For the First Time in Forty Years Ke-
nosha County Raises Wheat Enough
to Take Care Of All It's People
Average Better Than 40 Bushels.

The food administrator of the county
through the County Council of De-
Tense, is making an appeal for a new
kind of war service. It is an appeal
to men who are aiding in getting into
the grain bins of the county, the larg-
est crop of grain ever harvested in
Kenosha county, and in order to make
the work of threshing crews most eff
ficient the County Council of Defense
through the food administrator, has
sent an order to all towns in the county
urging that the men working with the
threshing machines start work at half
past eight in the morning and continue
to half past six in the evening. With
the heavy deWs Of Kenosha county it
is found that the wheat and oats Is not
in condition for the machine before
half past eight o'clock in the morning
and In some parts of the county the
men have been stopping work at half
past five. Some crews. have shown
patriotism by gsarAiaagss zsissssts thp94sEh to
seven clock and some of them have,
worried even later. ~
fEWe want to conserve every I ner
Bile hour Of farm labor deel;9ooIr
County Food Administrator Bullamttl e
in issuing the order today. 1--WE wanss'
to make every minute count. We be-
lieve that every man employed with
the threshing crews win respond to
this patriotic call and we are asking
farmers IN all parts of the county to
give us the names of men who decline
to accept these new hours of work.
We shall find a way to deal with cases
of men who decline to give patriotic
cooperation in this work.
Kenosha county is threshing right
now the largest grain crop in the his
tory of the county. For the FIRST time
in more than Forty years Kenosha
county has raised wheat enough this
year to provide -four for all of its
people and have some to spare to help
feed the army and the armies of the
allies. Mills in the county are getting
back to the almost forgotten work of
making -four and lots of it and humid
reds Of Kenosha county farmers will
fill their flour barrels this year from
their own wheat fields.
Reports from all parts Of the county
indicate that the wheat crop is prov
ing most valuable one for the farm
ers. It is declared that the acre aver
age from the county will be pretty close
to forty bushels an acre. The Curtiss
farm in the town Of Salem has furnish
ed a report of "big' wheat. From
twenty-five acres on that farm the
threshers brought IN an even thousand
bushels Of wheat, an average of nearly
forty five bushels to the acre. On the
same farm twenty-three hundred bus
hels of oats were taken from thirty
FIVE acres, this being an average Of
sixty-fve bushels to the acre. It is
declared that on many of the farms
of the county the oat crop is yielding
from seventy to eighty bushels to the
acre. The barley and rye crops are
turning out equally well.
1t is certain that the bumper wheat
crop this year will result in thousands
Of acres of land in Kenosha county
being sown to wheat next year.
The general outlook for all crops in
the county is reported remarkably good.
Recent rains have done much to bring
out the corn crop and the farmers de-
clare that the outlook for better than
an average crop is. now excellent
Some of the very late corn is a little
backward still, but with frost holding
off for another six weeks the farmers
believe that this crop viii be saved.