Gunnison Valley News | 1919-10-31 | Page 8 | Unique Plan in Harvesting

UNIQUE PLAN IN HARVESTING Farmers In Nebraska District Get Their Wheat Cut and Shocked in Record Time. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) Farmers of the St. Paul district in Nebraska worked out a unique plan for getting their wheat cut and shocked shock-ed In record time. Articles were written writ-ten by the county agent and published in the local press to the effect that It would be necessary to build up a local organization to help save the wheat crop. It was decided to have a banker, bank-er, the secretary of the commercial club, and the county agent take care of the matter, with the agent as chairman. The agent worked out a plan which was approved by the committee to have all the farmers report by two oWock each day and list the number of acres already cut and ready to be shocked that evening. A card or chart was placed at the post office at five o'clock each day. This information informa-tion was telephoned to all the towns in the county, which enabled the committee com-mittee to distribute the available labor la-bor to the best advantage. From 3S to 50 men were sent out each evening to help shock wheat, receiving 50 cents an hour for their labor. The records were kept in the office of the county agent. Every man going out reported each day and the number of hours worked on each farm. The clerk of the farm-labor bureau mads out a total bill when the job was finished fin-ished and the farmers paid the laborers labor-ers for their services by one check.