Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-19
CITY MEN HAVE.
CHANCE ON FARMS
Boy Scouts to Urge Harris
burgers to Give Part Time
to Agriculture

There is great talk of a scarcity
of farm labor but r. c. Haldeman,
who owns and operates a six-hun-
dred acre farm just over the river
from the city of Harrisburg, has not
worried. Mr.. Haldeman took time
by the forelock, both last year and
this season, and is now grinning at
the frantic efforts of other less
imaginative and less far-seeing
farmers.
The Ealdeman farm employs
seven permanent farm hands, who
plant and care for the major part
of the work on the estate. Last sum-
mer Mr.. Haldeman made arrange
ments with six men of Harrisburg to
spend their vacations on his place
during his harvest season and to help
get in the hay, wheat and oats. These
men were not hardeped to the la
borious farm work but were quite
qualified to do the tasks assigned to
them. They returned to their regular
work at the end of their vacations
brown and healthy and instead of a
deficit in pocket after the regular
vacation with more money than
when the vacation whistle blew.
Mr.. Haldeman, by his foresight,
made certain that his crops were un-
der cover and readv for any use the
government could put them to, eth
er for civilian or military.
This season, as last year, the
Haldeman farm will be insured a
successful harvest. for six men have
again been. secured to spend their
vacations in patriotic service, and at
the same time secure an opportun-
ity to enjoy a healthy change of
work at the market price for emer-
gencv farm labor.
The Public Safety Committee of
Pennsylvania has at the present time
plan in process of development
whereby many farmers may obtain
this same sort of service, which has
proved SO beneficial to the Halde-
man farm. In this county a survey
of vacation periods and such other
spare time as may be volunteered by
the citizens of Harrisburg and vicin-
ity, is about to be conducted by the
Boy Scouts of America, acting un-
der the direction of the Public Safety
Committee and the County Farm
Labor Bureau. The county farm
manager will have at his Office a list
of men and dates when they will be
available.
On MONDAY next the khaki-clad
Scouts will start on their census
taking task at the request of the
United States Public Service Reserve.
The Scouts will visit stores, factories
and offices. They will ask from en-
ployers the release for one day each
week such men as may be spared
and who will agree to accept an
emergency call to farm service. The
signature of both employer and the
man who will help with this pa
triotic service must be secured to
make sure of the required data. The
cards on which this data is taken
will then be presented to the county
manager for farm labor and by him
so tabulated as to give the best re-
suits to both farmers and patriotic
volunteer helpers.
In many cases the volunteer will
return home each evening, going to
and from the farms in cars secured
through the efforts of the county
manager of farm labor.
Fifty-six men in Lykens have al
ready volunteered for this type of
service under the chairmanship of
George Parfet. Harrisburg will have
an opportunity to tell next week
what it will do in the same service
under the United States Public Serv-
ice Reserve.