Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-18
What Other Editors Saw
WANTED: SIX YOUNG MEN.


John Sheffield is farmer of Sumter county,
He had farm worth approximately $5OOOO with
more than 200 under cultivation. He has 9TH
er things in addition to his farm He has had ex-
perence; he has problems present and giving promise
of growing in the future; he has vision and common
sense; he has faith in his farm, in his section in the
seasons to come, in the demand for farm products
and in young men. What's more and beyond all of
this: Mr. Sheffield has idea, big one that grew
up that farm in the past year.
Mr.. Sheffield isn't in the farming business for his
health alone for fun or philanthropy. But he
understands that there is new order of things
now in order. He finds that the present farm-labor
situation promises little in hope or real expectation
of settlement. Knowing that cooperation means ev-
erything that providing opportunity for others will
make permanent his own opportunity to profit by op-
eraons that farm, and he has proposed seriously
plan to give six husky willing, intelligent young
men a partnership in the farming business
His plan set forth in the Americas Times-Re-
corder and through the county farm demonstration of
Sumter county is interesting enough to summarize
He is searching for six young fellows who want work
who will work; who want to learn farming while they
of his in the business most attractive mutually
profitable basis He has an overseer on the place.
an experienced man; he had the place we'll stocked
and equipped with tractors and other modern farming
machinery. He will abandon his practically new
tenant house and build home for the six Young men
with attractive living quarters and with suitable
place to which they invite on frequent occasions
their friends to meet and enjoy social hours He will
provide them with practically the facilities as
city T. M. c. A. as to quarters reading room, club
convenences-with reference especially to the bust
ness for he emphasizes the scientific agricultural
features of the reading he will provide He will fl
lance the farming, providing the land stock machinery
(modern up-to-date machinery, at that, fertilizers,
and other supplies He will board the Young men at
a stated sum and pay them in cash regularly a small
wage-enough to cover clothing and other expenses
aside from board At the end of the crop year he
proposes to balance the books-for, being business
farmer, he keeps books accurateIy-and take half
the net profits of the himself as the divi-
dends his investment in the land and equipment
and the risks of financing of the year, the other half
he proposes to give to his partners the six to share
and share alike.
The plan is after the proft-sharing pattern and
yet not of the communistc strain at ALL 1t is pure
y business-lke partnership. The owner assumes
some risks all the financial risk but he solves in great
measure the labor problem The six Junior partners
take practically risk, for they get living and in
cdentals and the share of the ultimate profits COM
ing to them at the end of the year is dependent
little upon the and mostly upon their own eff
forts. In addition they obtain the finest training in
the world for making scientific, business-farmers of
themselves-and all the time live in circumstances
which thousands of other young men would envy.
Mr. Sheffield is making earnest efforts to locate
six young men, "the right sort" he specified. If he
finds them-and there should be scores of applicants
the whole of South Georgia will be watching the
experiment with absorbed interest. In the new or
der of farming that is already apparent the Sheffield
plan will hold special interest 1t may be the solution
of many probems.-Savannah Morning News