The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-07-27
FARM LABOR MEN
ADOPT PLAN
For Final Drive For Help In
Harvesting Crops In
South.

\ p' = mug Hbutp Ala. aug. 20 -
Farm help specialists from tb,
southern States. in the Depart
meDt of Agricnlture's harvest la
Dor conference held in Birgmlpg
ham, adopted the following as al
outline Of the campaign to be wag
ed until all of the South's big cot
ton and food crops have beer
gathered:
Cooperation between farmers
and city people, to be brought
about through coordination of al
agencies furnishing points of con
tact. with crop aud other agricul
tural programs TO he worked out
as the combined result Of commu
nifty effort.
Use Of all feasible labor saving
devices and improved farm ma
chinery.
Intelligent direction and con
servatiOn of labor to eliminate
waste and maintain highest etficl
cheney.
Rearrangement, SO far as posi-
ble, of the system Of farm manage
ment 80 as to keep labor employed
profitably the whole year.
Provision for better living con
dltiOns on farms to make workers
more efficient and better satisfied
Cooperation in exchange Of Ia
Dor and implements bet ween farm
| prs
Recognition that the work of
the farm labor specialist ia prima
rily an extension effort and should
be orgaDically and intimately con
nected with the agricultural ex
tension service In each state, 80
that other branches of the exien
sion service may be brought into
clear cooperation with farm labor
work.
The farm help specialists also
adopted resolution urging the
Importance Of stabilizlnk farm Ia
bor by providing better houses
aud more privileges for tenants
aud labOrers, aud calling for con
sideratiOn Of definite plans to ell
inmate losses caused by shifting
workers.
The specialists have returned to
their states to resume their work
Of helping southern farmers meet
the conditions caused By the trans
fer Of tens of thousands of men
from the farms to the army and
war industries. 1t ia expected
that they Will center their efforts,
This year at least, on mObllizing
able bodied city men to help out,
ut usual wages, at periods of
greatest need for farm help.
Prof. G. l. Christie, who taught
in the Alabama agricultural school
at Auburn, and who az assistant
to the Secretary of Agriculture
represents the Department in farm
labor matters, emphszized, IN a
talk to the specialists, the Impor
tance of increasing efficiency iD
The use of man power. Speaking
Of the thousands Of 'one mule
farms in the South, he said that
present conditions demand that
all men capable of managing farm
operations should direct larger
working forces of men, mules and |
machinery.
Emergency help secured through |
boys, women and men of the cities
is of great value,' he said, "bnt
this labor will not serve in the
larger management Of the land
Canada, from it's comparatively
small population, has sent 500, 900
of It's best men to the war, and
two or three have been from Ihe
farms. Despite this Canada in
1911 produced 8 per cent more
toodsiuffs than in any previous
year. What Canada has done the
United States can and must do"
The specialist sent to the Secre
tary Of Agriculture, David f.
Houston, q telegram telling of the
increased paintings Of food crops
in the South and the probability |
Of it's safe harvest.