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Show GREAT WAR CHOP OF APPLES FOR PEOPLE OFTHE NATION SOON It Will Equal Two Bushels for Every Person in the Country. Special Efforts Will Be Made to Handle Fruit Without . Any Loss May Find Help Shortage in Some Places Staples to Allies. In order that we may help win the voir against autocracy, Americans must do everything possible to furnish fur-nish sufficient food to help our fighting allies. We must eat more perishable and semiperishnhle food at home in order that the staple articles, such as wheat, may be sent abroad in great amounts. In a couple of weeks we will begin harvesting apples all over the country. This is a war crop. It will amount to two bushels for every man, woman and child in the United States. The motto this year is: "Eat an apple and send n biscuit." War eonditi'-'' o confront the apple growers. . i ; . is a scarcity of pickers, anil .-:. :d preparations must now be made to see that this crop is all safely harvested and put Into storage. Now Is the time to begin be-gin organizing picking crews in every apple growing section. A survey of the situation shows that the fnrmer will need co-operation from business men in the towns and cities round about at which he trades, and which have just as great nn interest in this crop ns the farmer himself. This is emergency organization work to be taken up immediately by chambers of commerce, boards of trade, state and county councils of defense, and business busi-ness men generally. The labor supply to harvest this crop exists right in the cities adjacent to the apple orchards in most cases, ' but the draft and demands of factories fac-tories and railroads for labor have disturbed the normal supply of workers work-ers upon which the farmer usually draws, and it is necessary to recruit new kinds of workers. Teople who have never regarded themselves as apple ap-ple pickers may this year be asked to go to the orchards and help, get in the crop for patriotic reasons. The organization work should take the form of an immediate survey of labor resources to see where a picking force Is to be recruited. Stores and factories can often release clerks and workmen for this service if notified in time. Families who would like a week or two of vacation in the country-with light, healthy outdoor work at satisfactory satisfac-tory wages, may also be induced to join the picking army. It has been suggested sug-gested that the schools might be opened open-ed later this year so that boys and girls can be sent to the orchards, but this will not be necessary in all cases. One very good source of pickers can be found among the women's organizations organiza-tions of this country, which are all keenly Interested in helping in any practical patriotic work. Much is heard about the scarcity ef labor, but there is not as great a scarcity scar-city as most people imagine. .Workers upon whom the farmer depends in ordinary or-dinary times have simply been shifted Into other occupations, and war conditions condi-tions demand that business men step In, locate other classes of workers who can be shifted to the orchards for this emergency and see that the farmer has plenty of help. There will probably be some difficulty diffi-culty In harvesting the apple crop with these - volunteer workers, many of whom have no experience at the work. Perishable fruit must be handled carefully care-fully to prevent injury to the skin and bruises. These would later cause decay de-cay when the apples go into storage. The principles of careful fruit picking pick-ing are very simple, and easily understood. under-stood. If the farmer can start with two or three experienced pickers and spend n little time explaining good Picking methods to his volunteers he should get excellent results, for these volunteers, while new to the work, will also he people of good average intelli-j fence, and the war emergency will appeal ap-peal to their interest so that they will be more than ready to help harvest the crop skillfully. Apple growers are advised to get in touch with the business organizations In their nearest town, ask that help be Riven in securing pickers and report 'he number of pickers needed by themselves. them-selves. One of the greatest (Iillicul-lics (Iillicul-lics In organizing harvest hands for any crop is that of galhering accurate information as to how many helpers ace needed on each farm and in each township. F0r lack of such information informa-tion it very often happens that one township will be handicapped because It Is without sufficient helpers and a township twenty-live or thirty miles a'uy will imve a surplus of workers. l(.v ascertaining in advance just how many workers will be needed In each locality, business organizations will be ble to recruit a sufficient force |