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Show 'Crop Situation is Reported Critical In an effort to complete vital harvest work which has been delayed by inclement weather, a plea has been issued to Cache county business and professional workers, work-ers, farmers, students, "and all others able to work," to help save the county's valuable beet and potato crops. "The harvest situation is becoming critical and the time has come when all of us must do all we can to save these food supplies," Lloyd Hunsaker, county agricultural agricul-tural agent, and Bennie J. Ravsten, emergency farm labor supervisor, declared in a joint statement Thursday. Thurs-day. About 60 Per Cent Completed The county's beet , harvest was estimated at about 60 per cent complete when .14 inches of rain in Logan Thursday halted most of the work, Mr. Ravsten explained. ex-plained. However, the work is spotted, with about 75 per cent of the beets dug in certain areas and only about 50 per cent harvested on some of the larger farms where the majority of beets are grown. The sugar beet problem in itself might not require such general effort as is being asked, the farm leaders pointed out, but this crop is only one of several suffering suf-fering from labor shortages. An undetermined acreage of potatoes remains unharvested ; some alfalfa seed has not been harvested; fall grain has not been planted in many areas; and all the fall plowing in fields planted to beets and potatoes must be done while weather permits. per-mits. If these fields are not plowed this fall, next year's crops will suffer. Schools Cooperate in Work The Logan senior high school is planning to cooperate coop-erate -next week by holding early morning classes and I release students for afternoon work, but the county schools must open Monday according to schedule to ! "complete their contract with the state board of education." edu-cation." The county school system has extended their vacation one week longer than was scheduled and it is imperative that school be resumed Monday, J. W. Kirkbride, district superintendent, declared. 1 ;-Providing weather" permits "work, all e'.asswork at Logan high school next week will begin at 8 a.m. instead in-stead of 9 a.m., and classes will be shortened to 45 minutes so that schools may close at noon, Dr. E. Allen Bateman, district superintendent reported. Buses will leave the school at 1 p.m. to carry students and teachers teach-ers to harvest work and will return to Logan about 6:30 to 7 p.m. Student and faculty crews will leave Saturday Satur-day at 8 a.m. and work full eight hours in the harvest. James Jordan, manager of the Logan TJ. S. employment em-ployment service office and field men of the Amalgamated Amalga-mated Sugar company, will assign the student crews to beet fields. "If parents and students will cooperate wholeheartedly and patriotically in this program," Dr. Bateman declared, "it is believed that many beets and potatoes in the valley can be saved which might otherwise not be harvested." A Final Appeal Mr. Hunsaker and Mr. Ravsten appealed to "any able bodied person who can work" to volunteer immediately im-mediately at the county agent's office. The volunteers will be assigned through their office to farms for whatever what-ever time they can work. Farmers are willing in many cases to furnish transportation trans-portation where necessary for volunteer workers, the officials said, and the county war price and rationing boards are cooperating in providing supplemental gasoline gas-oline to volunteers who need it to drive to work. |
