The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-27
OROUTH BENEFIT TO
FARM WORK IS COCO,
In Main. Employers Are Well Satisfied
With Results; No Blue Mondays.

Beneficial effects of prohibition in
the cities have been marked as every
one knows and perhaps they are the
more apparent because it Is in the
cities that saloons heretofore have
been running and doing the greatest
damage. But what effect has prohibl-
f., ton Rad on the rural community and
the farming industry? An impartial
report of investigation made by the
editor of the Farm and Tractor Sec
! ton OF the Los Angeles Sunday Times
! gives such an effective answer to the
question that it is reproduced in full
! herewith
- Laws to prohibit the sale of intoAi
eating liquor have proha bly, had Is
! marked an effect in the agricultural
! distr.c as IN the cities of the south
west While dwellers in the city have
been adjusting themselves to new con
ditlors imposed by these laws on the
farms the effect on la Dor appears 70
have been quite measurable.
I'm reply 10 questions by repre-
! sentative ,.,ot The Times Fayna and
Tractor Section as RI what had been
The effect ii any OF the passing OF
rrohihison laws on the quality If
b farm labor large employers of labor
in agriculture have failed to unanl-
mouslY agree to certain points That
the attempt 70 XIII John Barleycorn
has S vet had a he neacial effect on all
who formerly INDUCED in intoXicants
is questioned by some ranchers The
great a1ority however. unqualifiedly
say that since tbs ~sartin1e prohibition
b law forbade the public sale of intoxi-
eating liquors their men have been
more steady and reliable workers.
Fear Jamaica Ginger.
Nearly all of the Southern Cali
I, fornia farmers or ranch managers
: who report either a negligible effect
!, or a bad effect on farm labor from at
tempted prohibitions remark on the
tendency of the workers to seek sub
stitutes for liquor in other harmful
concoctions The workers, ii is pre-
| suned by most Of them, Will soon see
I the folly of drinking extracts. Jaulai "a
ginger and Misunderstanding nos
trums and viii give them up after d
r series OF disastrous trials One am
ployer declares that some OF the mer
I now laboring overtime on weird tip
S pies of one kind and another once
a found beer and hight wine strons
enough for their tastes and that thu!
far the prohibition Of the latter seem:
. to have made for discomfort,
Following are expressions anent tht
) effect of prohibition laws on ftrm labor
from men engaged IN MANAGING farms
and hiring farm labor
Clarence Coe Palms I note n bet
This is especially manifest in the line
UP in the feld on Monday morning
The men are more steady and the
capacity of the worker is greater.
Seen Ne Change.
eYolneY IT Craig. San fernando. ar
: employer Of 400 men There Is No
change that 1 can see in the quality
of work done by farm lahorors since
July /. but, although l SIN not pro
, hibtionist have never tolerated
' heavy drinkers on the premises. Some
/ Of my helpers, l have noted. are in
clined TO try various concoctions a:
substitutes for liquor, and | under
l stand they suffer thereby
Mr. Craig adds interesting eidellghts
on this subject, stating that the com
. posite farm worker throughout the
country is doing about two-thirds %
. much work as he did before the war
, 1T is rather early to Judge Of the
! effect OF nation wide prohibition &C
cordine to Merritt Fl. Adamson, pro
. prietor Of the Adohr Stock farms
0w ensmouth who SAYS that some Of
his men seem to be able sim to com
mune whenever they desire with the
> spirit of old John Barieycorn II is
; Mr. Adamsons belief however, thai
farm labor Will be more steady and
Dope ndabIe after prohibition has be
come a fact as well law and the
- privately-st supplies OF fire water
, have been consumed
: "Unquestiona bly,, the closing up OF
licensed liquor selling estsblishne nts
has be.tered the farm-labor situation