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Show PLANT POTATOES AND GET TO WORK. We are indebted to J. W. Abbott, of Geo. A. Lowe Co., for a circular letter from the American Steel & Wire company com-pany which shows how keenly alert arc the big manufacturers to the country's Imperative need of a larger supply of foodstuff. Each week the big steel and wire company issues a letter to tho trade, which generally is devoted to purely business affairs. This particular clr-ular clr-ular is given over entirely to a review of crop conditions and an appeal to raise more potatoes. The first sheet contains a map of the United States,- divided into zones, with dates of the end of planting late potatoes, and underneath is this instruction: in-struction: "It is not too late now It won't be too late for twenty days to plant potatoes po-tatoes to secure a bumper crop this year. Tho government report on wheat cuts down our chances of enough en-ough to cat this year. More potatoes are imperative. Properly devoloped, the crop will put tho high quality, good tasting, health-giving potato on millions of tables whero it is barely known today. Potato drying plants, costing comparatively little, will In-suro In-suro the farmers against loss. Potatoes Po-tatoes may bo successfully dried. The dried potato keeps for years." This is excellent advice. Even though our wheat crop is short, aB the letter says, It is not top lato to overcome over-come that shortago in foodstuff by planting potatoes. Under the Iowa crop review is this notation: "Unless farmers got help, thoy will not bo able to raise as much as would otherwise bo possible." Another paragraph on labor is as follows: "Farm labor is very hard to secure, making it hard for farmers to increase the acreage of crops. There are many men to be seen around railroad yards, who, though out of work, are not interested in-terested in offers made to go on the farms. They will not work." Writing from northwestern Iowa, a contributor says: "The selective conscription measure will solve the labor problem in this section. A lot of expert sports will register as farm laborers this year." This reminds us of a statement made by an Ogden student of the labor situation, who said: "This country needs a law supplemental supple-mental to the, selective draft measure, meas-ure, giving the military authorities ful employment every idler, loafer and vagabond in the United States. With a law of that kind in operation, there would bo no scarcity of labor in this country." While young men are being sent to the front, there should bo authority to compel the stay-at-homes to help sustain the fighting forces. nn |