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Show Leaders Study Farm Labor Sugar Beet Harvest Begins Monday The Cache county farm labor problem will become more serious during the next few weeks as the sugar beet, corn silage, potatoes and turkeyNcrops will compete for available harvest workers, but cooperation co-operation is expected to eliminate difficulties, farm leaders reported today. "Students dismissed for harvest vacation, some Japanese workers which are expected to be brought to the county and regular farm workers should be able to handle the harvest without appealing to, business and professional men to assist," they said. "However, it may become necessary to ask Logan Lo-gan workers to help in case of emergency." D. E. Smith, district manager of the Amalgamated Sugar company, reports that the sugar beet campaign cam-paign will begin Monday and will reach its peak the following week. Stations at which harvest operations opera-tions will begin Monday, are Hodges, Logan, Baugh, Greenville, Tangent, College, Hill Spur, West Spur, Nebeker, Hurren, Smithfield, Cardon, Litz, Lewiston and Wheeler. Wheel-er. Work will begin Tuesday at Glen, Mendon, Holt, Thain, Quin-ney Quin-ney and Benson; Wednesday at Jones and Morton stations, and next Thursday at Winn, Trenton, Arimo, McCammon and Virginia. The 5750 acres of beets this year in Cache county are expected to yield about 81,000 tons, as compared com-pared with about the same yield for 8,000 acres last yeajr, Mr. Smith said. Sugar content of 15.5 per cent a week ago was 1.25 per cent higher than at the same time last year. The Lewiston plant will start a 65-day run next Wednesday, Mr. Smith announced, and will slice about, half of the beets from Og-den Og-den district operations of the com- pany. About 340 -workers will be employed by the company during the campaign. Harvest vacation in Logan city and Cache county school districts is scheduled to begin October 15, although Superintendent J. W. Kirkbride announced after board beeting Thursday, that the county system may close a few days ear- ! lier if emergency conditions make 1 it necessary. Secondary schools in the. north end of the county have been conducted con-ducted by relays this week and will continue next week, with individual in-dividual classes being dismissed by turns on certain days to supply the present limited needs for workers. Tomato growers are completing an unusually fine season, reports County Agent Lloyd Hunsaker. By Saturday, about 300 cars of green tomatoes are expected to have been packed at the Trenton, Lewiston Lew-iston and Amalga plants. - Harvest will continue until frost stops the operations. Potato harvesting also Is underway under-way with some fields yet to be dug and others completed, Mr. Hunsaker said. Potato yields are relatively light but a planting increase in-crease to 1500 acres compared with about 900 acres last year is raising prohlems of labor and storage. If growers can keep most of the potatoes po-tatoes moving to market as they are harvested, there probably will be adequate storage facilities for the remaining crop. Processing of about 160,000 turkeys tur-keys at the Trenton plant of the Cache County Turkey Growers' association is expected to begin soon after the close of the tomato harvest, Manager George B. Bow-en Bow-en reports. Many of the workers who have been employed In tomato toma-to packing sheds are expected to transfer to the turkey processing. Harvest of corn silage is completed com-pleted in some areas, but another week will be required to complete the work throughout the county, Mr. Hunsaker said. Acreage was increased from about 1700 acres last year to 2700 acres this season as farmers turned to corn as a feed substitute for alfalfa fields winter killed earlier this spring, and there was no proportional increase in-crease in the amount of harvesting machinery available for the work. Corn yields have been good. Total labor force needed for the harvest has been est.mated at about 900 students fro.n the three county high schools and about 100 additional workers. Attemps are being made by the sugar company to bring in approximately 125 Japanese workers for the season. Housing accommodations are bfing irrar.ged on private farms and in lie Preston, Idaho moa.le labor ' tamp. |