The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-29
GET BEHIND A HOE.
Appeal to Boys of Vermont TO Work
on Farms.

To the Boys of Vermont:
If the war IS won, America must win
it. If America wins it, everybody must
fight. The American army, your big
brothers, are proving their worth on
the firing lines of France. Many of
them have done their duty to the full
they can never come home again.
Many more are going, ever going for
ward-on to save Eaglani-on to save
France--on to save Belgium-ves, on
to save your mother and your sister
from the horror of the Hun.
These boys Of ours and their allies
need food-good food and lots of it
to keep them in fighting trim. We'v
got 10 furnish it. Our farms must
produce it.
The farmers of Vermont, like the
farmers all over the country, have re-
sponded to the call for service as food
producers. Already they are producing
more food with less labor than ever be-
fore They are limited in their pro
duction by their own strength Acres
of crops last wear would have given
much larger yields if the farmers could
have had labor enough to have given
them proper care The farmers are
planning everywhere to plant large
aereages of staple crops, and are hop
! ing and trusting that from somewhere
will come the needed labor. They real
ize that only a small amount of addi-
tional labor can be secured from any
source.
| You boys of Vermont Of high school
age, who are not employed on farms.
have before you an opportunity to
serve your state and your country just
as real and vital as though YOU were
polishing your bayonet in Flanders
| trench.
You are force which must be
reckoned with if you will enlist in this
farm service and become a lighting
unit on Vermont farms You need
like the men of the armies. to be mob
ilized trained, and detailed for duties
in which you are fitted and efficient
Farmer boys have enlisted in the army
and navy, and have been trained &c
operate deadly mechanical fighting
machines of which they never
dreamed. Is it any more impossible
that the boys of Vermont who are ig.
) norant of farm life can be enlisted and
trained TO do the less intricate but
equally important farm operations2
There is training camp available e
you, the first of its kind in the state
, 1t is ready now to enlist you.
Boys, it's your chance. Don't le
it by. The older sons of Vernon
stand staunchly on the battle line TO
liberty, for freedom, for decency They
have offered their all They are pa
triots of the highest type.
Boys of Vermont Cant you catel
the spirit of the world s great cause
Can't you hear your older brother
sending you the call?
When the morning sun in all its IA
4 dance rises over the hills and battle
+ Camp Vail in gold and glory, it will
a reveal stalwart lads of Vernon
aligned before the flag mast to pa
! their heart s devotion to Old Glor,
as it mounts on high to watch owe
: their day
!. And when with evening hour tn
!, sun goes down, it will bid good nigh
to these same stalwart lands, who q
r. the end of day of work and effor
; can send across the ocean wide thi
r message to their brothers over there
5, Garry on, Men Of Vermont, the lad
}. at home are backing YOU up"
How about it, boysl Is it the re;
a thing? Can you loaf this sun
n mer aWay2