The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-21

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the war, the Committee of Food Sup
ply of the Connecticut State Council
of Defense and the United States food
administration are bending every eff
fort toward making available to farm
erS the utmost assistance in the way
of labor, credit and supplies Prac-
ideally every organization in the state
in which the farmer is interested and
from which he is deriving aid and as
sistance is being supported actively
by these organizations. A committee
of the Grange has recently been APP
pointed to work with the federal and
state organizations This Grange COM
mittee, which consists of Sherman
Eddy of Avon, J. A. Sherwood of Long
Hill and Charles A. Wheeler of the
Connecticut Agricultural College, acts
as medium between it's organization
and the Committee of Food Supply of
The State Council of Defense to guide
the efforts of the latter in the chan
uels productive of aid to farmers,
whom the Grange represents.
The State Council of Defense, ap-
preciating the Importance of the pro-
duction problem, has passed the fol-
lowing resolutions in order to support
the County Farm Bureaus, which in
their opinion are an important part of
the farm production system:
whereas, The County Farm Bu-
reaus are federal and state organiZa-
lions and are the sole agents of the
United States department of agricul-
ture and of the Connecticut Agricul-
tural College in each county of the
state; and,
Whereas, The program of agricul-
! tural production and food conserva-
| ton of the State Council of Defense,
Committee of Food Supply and all the
other organizations cooperating there
with depends upon the effectiveness
OF the Farm Bureaus and its agents
In each county; and,
"Whereas, Each County Farm Blu
reau is receiving large federal emer-
gency appropriations for carrying on
food production and conservation
work, the receipt of which is cOndi-
toned upon the raising of funds to
maintain the organization within the
county; and,
"Whereas, Their effectiveness de-
ponds upon a recognition of their lead
ership within the county by the State
| Council of Defense and its War Bu-
reaus, the press and the public at
large of their position and their re-
sponSibility;
BE it resolved:
al. That the State Council of De-
tense indorse the work of each Farm
Bureau as indispensable to the pres
ent food production and conservation
program in the state.
"2. That they instruct the War Blu
reaus to interest themselves actively
in promoting the federal and state
programs being carried out by the
Farm Bureaus and to render every
possible aid to the Farm Bureaus in
carrying out their work and meeting
their financial needs"
That the farmers are responding ia
vorably to the action of the state and
federal organizations is apparent in
the attitude expressed by 13S farmers
who have replied to QUESTIONABLE as
to the labor they would be willing to
use next year. This questionable was
issued by I. G. Davis, state leader of
county agents, on behalf of the Com
mittee on Woman Labor, of which
Mrs. Joseph W. Alsop of Avon is chair.
man. OF the 1873 farmers 10 signified
their willingness to use both boy and
woman labor in place of the men reg
'ularly employed. Only IL were IN
willing to use either woman or boy la
Dor and 40 signif1ed their willingness
to use boy labor though they could
find no place for women in their ogri
cultural work.
Herbert Hoover, in an appeal tC
farmers of Connecticut through the
Hartford headquarters Of the state
and federal organizations, lays partlc
ular emphasis upon the need for in
creased production this year. His let
ter is, in part, as follows:
while necessarily the determine
ton Of policy on production is In tht
ture and Its agencies, l feel that it /:
prime duty Of the food administra
ton to inform the farmers as to thu
national necessity. The particular
: crop that the farmer raises is of sec
ondary Importance to the food admin
lstratlon as compared to production
so long as it yields an increase in hu
; man and animal food, Practically IN!
crop of this character will assist in re
, ducing the world shortage The mali
thing is to get planting and breeding
on a larger scale than hitherto. Wha
:. we want to instil into the farmer
f mind is that the responsibility RESI-
4 upon him If this cause is to be won,
81 am relying on your using ever
implement at your command to pu
this before the farmers of your state.