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Show NO ' REAL SHORTAGE SHORT-AGE IN FARM LABOR ' Farm labor conditions in Utah are not so serious as they promised to be at the beginning of the present season. Early in the year an alarm tpread over the country that fanners could not get help to plant and harvest har-vest their crops. The cry was repeatedly re-peatedly made that the government is taking our trained farm hands for the army, and the shipyards taking what Is left for fliipbullding. It has subsequently developed that there Is no real labor shortage, the actual fact being there is In some sections sec-tions a surplus, in spite of the fact that hundreds of our best men have been taken by the army and shipbuilding ship-building corporations. Throughout Utah reports' come in that farmers can get all the ht lp'they need. In some cases it Is Impossible to get experienced help, but in every county there 1 at the "present time sufficient help to see this year's crops through in good shape. A typical case 1b reported by AVI, IP. Thomas, county agriculture agent of Weber Oourty. Mr. Thomas states that hi 1917 he had placed at this date 3(K) men o ; farms in his. county nnd so far this i year he has not placed ten, W. V. Ovm.-t, district loader of the county . agents In southern Utah, reports tho farm labor condition to hf in betier condition than knit year. He adds, further, "our labor committees have ; established Inbor bureaus nrrt have-(.tven have-(.tven considerable publicity to tlx labor question with the result of lutv ins i-'olvid the lnbor problem' for this v":ir already." How h;ih this condition beer brought about? The fanners aro t 't j hifj their h?bnr probU'iris sr'riOt!s;v ; planning in advance of their noeoN. They r.re exchanging hell) and co-op- j crating hi a way they have never I done before. Mure farm labor machinery mach-inery has been brought into ixe ov ,-. ,... , fc jn addition, the sit-j sit-j , ht '.Tnt)nni's have Imported i sptwal iiiiiii.ii el .Mexicans to cure for i.ii-u w..;-k n sugar beet culture. Loys of the state hive been or . ui..:lz.. .1 .ato the boys working reserve. ' '.'i.-.:d. . d s of boys representing every county in th state ure ready to g( to the farms if needed. The business men of the state ure ' heart and soul behind the farmers Many farm trained men who are at i present workirg in th3 citbs. und i towns of Utah are volunteering their . help if needed. i It Is interesting to know that our fann"rs hav increased the'r acre-1 age and prospects are bright for a splendid year. In spite of the Inroads of the draft upon farm help and the Feeding of several hundred men to aid In building ships, the earnestness of the farmers in hold'ng up their parti! of the program Is going to solve nn j; new problems which may arise. i |