Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 18, 1917, Page 15

WILLIAM C. HALL of New York city, who is serving as mational director of United States Boys' Working Reserve. ADDING TO THE =00D SROUP OF BOYS WH HE AMERICAN FLAG FLYING OVER THE CAMP OF A e e b e e PRODUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES. which the farmers reimburse. A J;xnki]or ; “and his N o P Mao suppiied With 4| taUENt and departs to the farms of | ditions undor which the bovs are work- |1y fa1t the shortage Khaki uniform and a pair of good|Maine there comes an equal number |ing. The federal organization does not fcd help to mainta trooping in with their blankets and |aim to take the place of any of the |parcs of the Kevst Doits. Hiy ruiizedd tare o and 1roi]evoq aispomitions, ete. state or other associations formed to d wr his home is given him, besides trans-| €90 ¢ 0SS, JO"S Sitinions of the Uni- | do similar work. but merely 16 60-0r | tha freras o the ‘v portation from. the camp to the fa¥M| i 5ity of Maine is in charge of the dinate the work o that the best results | working close 1o the ¢ of Brothe CURRYING 1S ONVE OF THE 314 4 21+ bul SOON LISAKNS ON THE FARM. THESE PHILADELPHIA BOYS, ON A -2nd back each dav. agricultural prejects of Winthrop Cen- may be obtained in mobilizing the boys |jove are direetly under t p (e A5 IN CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYEVANIA; SEEM TO BE ENJOYING LIFE. H t‘i - :‘:‘r] r‘.’i\n\l'n," "I"h\;- “L'r":m’)\.l ’.”::"\]:hnr xn‘d ‘;\}gfi!:’w“ ”’:J(m"yf:;l_; :n) 13 their best in |ihe Philacelph'a mobil tion oo " x ary instruction are unde di- resent emergency. the There is a veritable New England|rection of Licut. Fred D. MeAlar a York alone asks for the co-op- - pecial Corresponden < state director, whose headquarters is[In Maine the organization of boys is|system connected with such generosity,| Ietired officer of the National Guard, of | of iuinef i an N0 UL oz to} .. ‘ Washington, D. C 1917. |in Salt Lake City, telearaphed during |termed the junior volunteers of Maine.|however, and the number of articles|mapped out the day for the lads of the | sus of farm mein in this state. with a | In Indiana fifty boys ha NB of the vers iatest Tungects | (18 JSer PATE o€ JUg, (2 BR0OURCE LG o Nt York 1o mobiliz- | ComPulsory for each votunteer to bring| reserve has all the earmaris of & husy | veater bopulation than any other. re- |for to work in onion fi g for study in the new curricu- |of twenty-five bovs a day in the sullar [ing the boys for ‘farm work and al-|from home might be, in size, akin to;Pusiness, The first call is af 9:30. This | veals the fact that there are 16,000 less |dreds of acres having been €ourse has been undertaken by men reserve, whilo a national or-|$ by the Department of Labor had this|to college. A blanket, a -dress hat,|Sell SOunds ad 6,0 while chapcl 12 aeld | Youne neople born and raised in the [by J. A Van Du hese " scattered over the country and ordi- tion,” said an authority on thelto say swimming tights, cocoa butter for sun-| apes throwghout the day antil, at 8:50 A Da s of the Empire stats have. | Haven Y. 3. Q. A At one narily engaged in straightening -out Subject, at the general headquarters It ‘may interest you to know that{purn, a Bible and a good dispo: | heard and all is quiet v- |those of the cities. There are thirty |they are using the grandstand of r z 5 2 e here, . “is working through state and|nearly one thousand acres of land ifNlare a few of the numerous req ndisd Bave ivenay. have DEst | chmps BNG o ToT oD asREs I | otnds 16F & JodEing: hots y quite different problems. And “prob- ioca] hodies, merely aiming to co-{cotton have been hoed and thinned b¥{ments. ed. jover the state i Sl and . N Ten lems” is the word, according to the ordinate the work of these various|our boy squads to the great satisfac-| Rev. M. H. Wakefield of the Baptist| I'rom Arthur F. Payne, who is ncting | Arthur H. Wilson, an assistant to Mr.|of city boys are organizcd Department of Labor, which has ac- 'State organizations toward helpin Celan. of the owners of the !;nr:an'l;h;'-; Church at Windsor, Me., once chief|director of the Teserve in New York |Hall in his capacity as national director, | bands for picking frult, help P R = Ha ve the present .emergency labor |is certainly an increasing de: A _for|herdsman on a famous farm in Ma state. there ~om the report that Washington d ng the latter pa vest grain and working in vineyard; 4 as national director of the.season’s|majority of the boys are sent to the[along strictly business -lines. 25 the¥|oows and gives practical lessons in the|the attitude of the farmers toward e T e N e g Lralning chsvips Wik study. How this enthusiastic, experi- |farms either singly. or in ..small \run their own commissary, pay their|gelicate buginess of milking. More than! these boyvs, as they are now very glad with officers of the state organ.|boen established Al org 3 enced younz man, werking @ conjunc-|STOUPS, but wherever practicable they |own bills, and thus far have made a net|half of these boys have had experience|to have them. Of the boys sent out ion in New York clty. Thig par-|for boys outside e ¥ = man s are sent in camps of twenty-five or |profit over the costof operating of over| working on farms. however, and theyfrom New York 'eity « fourteen 1y “shall affect the questions of | Phin. New Haver - tion awith the Department of “Agricul- |more. They go out from there to the|$1,200. We now have three squads of | Wil not need so much driliing and tu.|have returned. I fecl thai this is a Intenmive recruiting methods, o |citien have been p . nt a ture and under thé Department of La- |surrounding farms every morning. The | twenty-five boys each in the fleld: tWwo| toring. rkable showing. The farmers are g 1 the farmers In seeuring the | vantage in fitting bor for the canners and farmers who [boys in these camps have a leader, who | squads of boys from the high school| Tt is claimed that discip s the & their share and are treating the ired help. The idea of sending boys | from the start Ir need help, is progressing is worth |is either a Y. M. C. A. man, a teacher fand one squad of Indian boys from the|watchword of the Y. M. C. A. camp at | boys carefully for the first week or & SEher ataten to Ter Tovcing o ',Ivn..,. places they hav looking ug in some agricultural school or some|United States Indian School Winthrop Center, overlooking Lake |studving them and making the ve AEI0D AT Ny n harvast 1d the lads dur t A want ad for 5, oys appears |one who is used to handling boys. As this is rather an unique demon-|Cobosseecontee. These lads in the | best use of their individual abilities ai fon by this group of interested | beriod. since farmer to be rather er, yet this . stration of how boys in this time of|khaki suits, havinz practical demon- * i o, Tway number being arms o work, B national crisis can be of great as-|strations g em upon matter: * * Farmers are getting over their ola] . 1N o way has the hove rking under the direction of the United| . . sistance, I am sending you a couple| vitally conce farm work, pre- | “The reserve,” sald Mr. Hall, national | prejudiee and aorr namit thar thelr old | ans 3 i consideration. )M:. ‘Hall reports that |Singly the federal reserve impresses|of one of our Eroups of boy ilarly uniformed soidiers getting into | 3! z = h the bogs are |Which thev have been obliged to depend | nd it is als b almost half that number of Youths indupon the local body the importance of{ Maine has a unique plan in gettng|readiness for the business of war. |organizations under which the boys are | FRCE T Bave been obllg T eI e nt . e thie country between the azes of #ix- | 1o, E together the farmers and the boys. The|There is room for 300 in this camp, | working to see to it that eful and R LR L ot Gt ache] e aonguciad, for s aan teen and twentveohe ure unemployed |NaVIng Some Supervisor or instructor|jatter do not get their wages from|and just as soon as the full quota is | frequent inspection is made of the con- [¥Z0700 2 Me s At 1o e lmurdgrRtion “bury during June, July -and August. .~ He [who will make regular weekly trips farmist he! s Ny ronior A ’ At for doesn’t believe in idle boys. regardle 0 the farms to see th: s S 3 s/than can vet be filled : 1 of the shortage in labor just now, and |} the s to, geo-ghat the bove ung oo ot he is credited with kno: mething ng well treated and that the con- secti "mers ‘used to pick r BB he Bubiect Of Dok ions under which they are living ever led ‘labor they h t of r is characterized as his u e what theysehould be in every re- | s This ¥, hey are beginnin et in establishing and madintaining cluk ct. These inspectors also take up | = “ ; s boptihy. Touns W - for them in New York city. adjustment ~of any stion of : will i ave s i ch may aris stance, | resnc i 1r better than che g y * ot Lol : i juncertair irr 1sible labor ho sei 53 days be- 5 - D N ¢ Phe phraié e iH0 ation of boys™ gt B Ry e In an e sounds like the c cry of Ger-[paid for that period. had to be | rile inexperfenced ofty men seem Sling ¢ of the d ¥ many, though Y h 2 phrase ‘};\_:!}”';n”a'?fi 5_'1rzigs“f_fl by the inspec- u n the farms, the inex~ ng does r s in constant use by the wffictals ot the | (055, Fr that wiginity '° = = T a hovs are commendable, | (he reserve until the u; reserve. Several governors of states|fixed by the varying tonditions. The bable that In New York, at e fu By e et Wikhinlan it average from $1 to $1 a da ne result of this experience tions Saaries over Gy Riasbe | with board and lodging. In some places hia e ot Calr dor IHe | i béing among the 1aét to v { they are working picking fruit, : 3 = | by actual wor he per e ang IRe leat o - and vege for: - canmenten boy narvest helpers. Thousands of | flen the off s bovs ¢ picking |they receive from to 30 cents an boys are now gaining valuable experi-|ond of the ven harvest work ang jhour. Jeffers Smith, director gen- worked faithful Ahy " ans has eaten i€ral of .boy labor in Maine, has written | “Fr neyl ports come that | b ar 1o 1 r e yor, Mich., 10 the office here something 1 think from = ght 1ads wholpart of the bads ow to chewerth quoting. .One. sentence in his t to work or Honorable Bar e from Chi. |letter reads: ‘Our boys think little | 1 r 3 L i t 1dy City |cf the money they get as do the v h or ‘ G te otr{Privates in the National Guard. They pro zone is under |are working for their country.’ £ oMces for his return s/ the capital| “One purpose of the bhovs' working B s . v, C Slee te director reserve is to prevemt duplication of ef- ric for the hoys rS fort In nearly all of the- states the other 6 W . o e then e nell £or 100 director for the reserxe is an officer of | movement in lam E. Ha fo Ithe state council of defe No at- | vor to tain | consints t ¢ |tempt is being made. by us to take| in ‘its 1 service ppointees a an offer accompa over the work of the &tate bodies, but | g s 3 g s % B &= mocracy.’ the national boy « portation and ! |simply to impress them twith certain | AT PHOENIXVILLE, PA., WITHIN A FEW MILES OF THE PLACE WHERE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE more than 500 bovs |are traveling orga From Utah . . the iKFr\(‘X‘nl lines which should be fflHou’t‘d.] WAS SIGNED, THESE PHILADELPHIA BOYS ARE “FARMING FOR FREEDOW.” on farms which keen-|sworn into federa Forty-two Bushels of Potatoes From an 8-foot Pfidt by New>Mefih@(:fl» Special Corresponden: | ment eclipsed the others by producing the | amount to forty-eight hills of potatoes.|which cannot be controlled in the or-|on under glass. It has even been sug-|foods, for no other condition but ax aigariian. The £ WASHINGT! D. C. August 1917. | astenishing total of forty-two bushels. | Then put an inch or two of fertilizer over | dinary fleld, does not operate adversely | gested that with the aid of steam,|abnormal one would make such excew- | potatoss o the aar $50 b OW would ‘Fou - like f5 “raige| THIS new method of potato cu the potatoes and sprinkle with water. |against the pen. It has moisture, | properly regulated, with a temperature |sively intensive agriculture wort o pew method | ¥ 3 0. Talse| cglves the problem of an unfailing so | Lay six inches of dirt as before. mark off. | drainage, ventilation and all the con’|of about seventy 'degrees maintained|while 25.000 bushe o an_acr enough potatoes on a plot mo [of cheap food supply.’ The details of plant, manure and water again, repeating | ditions necessary to £0od potato Srow 1 nitrogen electric lights burning | At present Mr. Hendricks is experi-|space. As a solu bigger than a flower-hed - to | Construction of the pen suggest a plan by | the, operation with enough lavers to fill [ing practically insure a perfect crop.|twelve hours each day, potatoes may | menting with different kinds of pota iving. ¢1¢ : o . supply wour family for a year? ST ORGSRy I e a0 S e the’ pen to the top, which may be six or| Aside from the enormous yield the|be grown in pens erected indoors|toes to see whic t adapted to | trial It can be done | t of ground LT S that will | eight feet from the ground saving of labor and of land by this|throughout the winter. But this, of the pen and he says hav me | — it s supply an average family for a year. As the pen rises, Mr. Hendricks sug-imethod.are strong factors in its favor.|course, anticipating the specter of |interestin nnouncements to make | Biits R. E. Hendricks of Kansaa Clty. Mo, | Befor soing into the details of Mr | gests place on the fourth laver in_the | Xiuo "when i & itions i i woria tarins heonen fafinre of | next Novembe | The Old Spirit. ome forth lately with tk unce. | Hondricks’ plan, and to bring this new | center of one side, about two feet from y sl = . | ordinary cs-as or prohibitive prices of | In any event, his revelations to date ~has come forth lately with'tiie anagunce- | ETICe, BIat, AP A0 RERE R T | e e ona s moist ooy, TP 4T | favorable the production can be carried | ordinary or p v i ment that he raised forty-two bushels |reach of all, another idea of a similar na- [ made of any piece of timber about the | ssRT tv A r of potatoes on a plol of Eround eight [ture mav be suggested. 1€ Is possible to | size of the arm. four by four inches L { 4N ar Tar ¢ ol e 3 S 5 {raise potatoes in a barrel, and for many | three feet long, placed so that it will pro e feat square by, RfPwids. fhem. JB MEhs.|people this plan may be more feadily | trude from the pan about a foot Afcer giher well ghow. the a He has alsd 'gigde ‘pablis *ue Getails*of |adopted than that of the eight-foot pen. | the potatoes have been planted three we've still got the old bridge ' his method and<efficials bf thej Depdrt- | An nrd;‘nary’sngar barrel whm‘h lco}sts no | weeks loosen this tester, pull it out and spirit o & s ol re than $1 Is procured and holes an {run your hand in the opening to determine Sto wckson 1 1 ment of ARridulturs) shiihat wkSplans | N0° (1N Yo te Phve Misered around. 1. | the s e LD the opening to 4 this, one A g askeon, Yot linaw. b possess a great deal.ef, merit.; ... {One row of holes encircles the barrel af | learns how much water to use on the pen RS YRS BasORSrY Ih SechEte Dere The achievement? I3 iaf . efantble ozl}ahmn six Inches from, the bottom, other | After the tester has once been removed, it the filinay Dridges an the Iine : T on f ive @i —~ rows are bored six inches apart until the | .is easy to make the test once or twi L 7 ol e . z c wice a were continually being swept gardening On ag,intensive spale, and|iop’of thé barrel is reached. The soil and | week afterward, This will keep tha con Pl LT B I D wonders maxy,.be ‘accomplished Speh [fertilizer is Dlaced in the barrel up to tie s o and in these tingencies Mil a stale of plant culturewith atuldSe #hy |line of the first row of holes, then the po- * . L e pncies Ml 3ut, in the light of last-winter's |tato seedlings in sue ewe e could run you up a k %3 |tato scediings are ‘eet in this soil in such «x in"the time 1t would take another man to make the measureme soating prices of patitges; and ¥he Ha-a position that the sprouts, when thev be- | The pen should he near a water supply “One day the Union troops burned a tionwide cammpalgn to speed up YhE food | gin to arc s g A SoErow. omn Com® Umonh e nae o that it may be well watered during a \\i-—q. production -of the country, Mr. Hen- | Alternate layers of Eoll, fertilizer and . ; Arjcks’ plan, asgymes & simidcanceithat | potatoes are placed in the barrel until | dry spell. It should be watered from the bridea scross (he Shenandoali. Stons. it “could not command’{if world condi- it is full As soon as the potatoes begin | top about twice a week. unless nature vl Jariaon CHLAG 014 Miles to Biw tions were normal to send forth their sprouts the barrel wi £ { prouts the barrel Will | ,erforms the task with rainfall. As an | arnas o faust put all young men to work 32 3 ‘ |be_a mass of green Sk, Bokate The pen works on the same principle. 2id, the top layer should be sloped toward Miles, and yqu must keep them at it a To begin with, the whole_ pian is It may. be built eight feet wide by any i the center so that the soil will absorb | mghv. r&r‘ ve ot to have a bridge imp Cibleg’ ™ Nagi encth, just so it is strong enough to kee: isture and no across this stream by morning. My founded on, simple princlples, " NeRly | ijo° sides from spreading. Amy kind. of | moisture and not shed it, but care should engineer will draw up the plans f vou every housd®ifs ikho¥s ‘that”d “Potato | stout material may be used, though light | be taken by the grower so that mud doas ptle in a cellar bin, for Ahstasted; twill | lumber or boards require an additional | not form on the top and bake into a crust, send out shoots in the springtime | Pracing with wires. Rich earth and good en this preliminary preparation through evers possible-crac and crev. | fertilizer, preferably well rotted manure, shed the potatoes will soon begin Well, early the next morn Ta on, very much worried, met old Mi) ee ‘here,’ he said, dubiously; how that bridge? Did the engineer hou ice. Sometimes these sprouts will evawi | 27¢ required to fill the pen to the top. to grow through the sides and top of | o JOn tHa DIk alorig the' floor a distance of several * the pen—the nearest way to the light 1X513" Miles took the clgar from B ong the '- e b : e es too o rom his feet to reach the light. “Fronr this basic * > As th oots emerge ° through the mouth and flicked the ash off with a sneer. “‘General,’ he sald, ‘the bridge is done. 1 dunno whether the picter is or ot.! fast Mr. IHHendricks concelyed the idea| The pen is built as each laver of po- |crevices k”“‘»‘/m Kol iths t““‘;flde“ that if this pile were removed into the ramework | wi he coat of livin open and given-sofl amd molstare -the | (2(0°S IS placed and planted. One may | green. 4 potatoes would _grow and geproduce. | USe one-by-six-inch boards for the ends | As soon as the potatoes are matured,| - His pnt.'lno pen is nothing mrfi'e} or 15 s nd sides and leave a two-and-one-half- | the pens may be taken down and the than ‘a huge potato-hill, with the sides |inch space between for the s potatoes rolled out of the -thin coverln " 7y E prouts to N ng sipported by a loosely ' consiructed. in- with a rake, the soil may be saved for closure built ‘after the -fashion Of an |COMe through. The pen In ‘started With |another yvear. This 1s the extent of old rail fence. £ “iki | a six-inch layer of dirt. The plot is then | the operation. In a pen only eight by eight feet in size, | marked off with guide lines, a foot apart| The pen may be started as early and et ttizes e L e onsies | each way, allowing six inches of space for Rature o sinecy aavs Bt i et ™H orsiliz: e o s - 4 ety days. or ING 4 3 J 2 E PL eight feet high, a. yield of forty bushels | soil all around the edge between the in- | the potato crop is usuaily planted from PR O I AR | 27 TSI R N N | Our Failures. G GOETHALS was talking about a man who had not succeeded in THEM. life. From the start NTED ACCORDING TO THIS METHOD OF RAISI) the general said, was obtainéd:’ The second - exgeriment | side of the pen and ‘other place for the | March to June. Under this new Figure 1. End elevation. 4 . 2 . U s method he was one of those chaps who pride brought forgh _thirty-two-Aushilsc, guter row of potatoes. Plant a potato|they may be planted much later. This|Figure 2. Layer plan, showing plat as laid on top of dirt, with “molst tester” in position. Large dots on cross limes | themuelves on the excelience of 1h : excuses.” the same sized pen. . The third cxpeyi- | seed at every cross line in the plot, which | is possible because the hot dry weather indicate how potato seed is placed.