The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
NEW CENTERS

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loading plan.
NEW CENTERS
Outside the plant two new
loading centers will be provided
with new equipment, both locat-
ed in Monroe county at Casino
and Newport, respectively.
The total acreage now under
contract has been hiked by the
company to about 8,400 as COM
pared with much lower figures
in the last few years and the
general plan of the company is
to boost the total back to the
10000 to $4,000 that it used to
be when the plant was owned
and operated by the James
Davidson interests of Bay City
under the resident-management
fthe late William M. STREET.
The chief handicap under
which the beet season is pro-
crossing is an acute shortage of
farm labor that the importation
Of some 800 Mexican field hands
and truckloads of young people
to work in thinning the beets has
served to alleviate but not cure.
That's tn ebig hole in the
harvest set-up,' Heath declared,
We're going to wake up and
find ourselves short. The Situa-
ton isn't only applicable to sugar
beetS, its common to the whole
agricultural picture"
WILL NEED HELP
The vice president and general
manager declared that young
people who will get in there and
hit the ball" can earn from So
to S. per day thinning beets.
An experiment is being con-
Quoted here in the breaking up
of the clusters of beet seeds that
have been commonly planted in
this area to permit the planting
of single seeds to avoid croWding
and so avoid the necessity of ex-
cessive thinning, Heath pointed
out.
However, there won't hardly
be a start on that program this
year simply because the comp
any couldn't get the seed and be-
cause it did not acquire the plant
definitely until too late in the
season.
The company's complaint in
regard to farm labor was sub
Stantiated in other quarters to-
day.
John Balm, farm labor expert
for the Federal Employment
Service, declared that he has
been bending every effort to Sc
cure farm laboc from Mount
Clemens and other county local
tiles and also from Detroit. His
best efforts thus far have result
ed in supplying about II young
workers for beet fields and truck
gardens. They are carried to and
from their work by the sugar
trucks, Balm said.
YOUTH APATHETIC?
Practically no interest at all
is being taken by Mount Clemens
young people toward the relief
of the labor shortage in nearby
farm fields but there is a little
interest in Warren township and
elsewhere in the southwestern
part of the county. At Romeo !
young people have evinced con-
interest in the project |
Of aiding in fruit thinning and
picking in nearby orchards, Balm
said.
William Murphy, county agri-
cultural agent, cited the neces-
sity for farmers to pool their re-
sources of personnel and equip |
ment to meet the shortages as
other huSbandmcn have done in
the national granary or the state
the Mississippi river
from Missouri to Minnesota. In .
those areas, he said, farmers
have put machinery owned by |
one into a pool of machinery |
owned by others so that one
group of farmers may use a trac-
tor owned by one man, a thrcsh- /
ing machine owned by another .
and a corn shredder owned by .
somebody else. In addition they /
all help each other in successive
and harvesting jobs .
working from farm to farm until +
the harvest of the land owned by .
individual members of the group
has been completely harvested. /
In other instances groups of .
farmers have done cooperative .
of hogs, each man be .
ing assigned the part of the task
to which he is best suited and the
group working through the area
covered by its individuals hold .
inEs until all butchering has
been done. BY such cooperative
tactics and by starting at day
light, one group was able to
complete the whole butChering
for a single farm in a day that
ended at 4:30 pm, the county
agricultural agent pointed out.
India has % qO2 600 acres