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Show LABOR SHORTAGE TERMED SERIOUS Workers Needed For Hay, Beet Fields The Cache county farm Labor shortage was termed today as "critical" as new appeals were made for volunteer workers, especially es-pecially for hay pitchers and for boys and girls for beet thinning work, Bennie J. Ravsten, county labor supervisor, reported. He, said that workers are needed in beet fields, to put up the newly new-ly cut alfalfa crop and with berry picking. Younger workers can take care of most beet and berry work but older groups are needed for the hay fields. Mr. Ravsten announced that approximately 60 Mexican laborers are being borrowed daily from Box Elder county and approximately approxi-mately 120 Japanese laborers from the mobile farm labor camp at Amalga and being used in the fields. An additional contingent of 30 Japanese workers is expected from the relooations centers. Twenty-eight North Cache and South Cache high school boys who are employed at the army service forces depot in Ogden have been returned to the county for temporary tem-porary farm work and approximately approxi-mately 45 Logan school students will return next Monday, he said. "This will help to alleviate the situation somewhat," he declared, "but many additional workers are needed if the beet and alfalfa crops are to be saved." He predicted . that if the beet thinning work is not complete in ten days, many acres of valuable beets will be too large and too weedy to use. Farmers will have to plow them under. The exceUent alfalfa crop, which may approach a record, also will be lost if workers cannot be obtained, ob-tained, Mr. Ravsten pointed out. This Wijrk mi.it cGiiiplete before be-fore the end of the month, when all labor will be transferred to fruit and canning crop harvest. He urged volunteer workers to sign up immediately at the labor office in the county courthouse. Free transportation to beet fields is being provided and girls are working under supervision of Mrs. ., Ellen Carter, a trained nurse. ''Parents are asked to encourage their sons and daughters to be patriotic at this time and assist with needs of the farmers, while business men should release all available older men for work in the hay fields," he concluded. |