Show boy scouts take on beet thinning job in the brigham district it is not much of a problem to get beet thin thinning ng labor it is not necessary for the beet growers to comb the foreign labor centers to obtain their beet thinners the boy scouts of the community are organized into groups varying from twenty five to forty boys in a group during the peak of the thinning three such groups have assisted growers who are not able to secure their 0 w n thinners this system of organized work is beneficial and economical to both the boys and the beet growers the cost of transportation is kept down by loading a van to capacity in conveying the boys to the fields fields within a radius of 20 miles of Brig brigham barn city are served by this system comfortable and safe school vans are enlisted for this use the boys are without worry in connection with the work as all business matters and their welfare are looked after by a supervisor in charge with each group of thinners a man is employed experienced in beet culture and thinning practice who also is a man of good character and with ability to control the work done he also keeps a record of the work they do so they can be paid by the lineal rods done satisfactorily atthe at the theL beginning of a job he stakes out a block of rows for each boy before the boy is credited for his work it must pass inspection the farm owner and assistants are required to be on the field to help direct the work and see sec that it is lone done properly most blost certainly his time cannot be better spent than by laboring among such a group of boys encouraging them by kindly explanations of the importance of good thinning and filfly insisting on it it is necessary occasionally to suspend a negligent or wilful boy for a day allowing him to prove the next lay day that lie he can and is willing to do better rarely is it necessary to suspend one altogether another ed advantage vantage which the growers like in the method of group thinning is the time sav saved in in getting a field of beets thinned it has not been uncommon for a I 1 group of the large boys to thin 18 or twenty acres a day this done the farmer can get to cultivating I without interruption conserve the moisture and push growth the grower is is saved the worry and time of finding housing or transporting individual thinners when the scout group has finished a patch the farmer fanner pays the supervisor on the basis of 1585 lineal rods of 20 in per acre and that ends his trouble as far as thinning is concerned while the beet grower is being helped with his chinni thinning pg work a very valuable service is is lone done for the boys and their parents aswell as well A hundred or more boys ranging in age from 12 to 18 years who ho are arc not otherwise placed in gainful work are helped in a way to earn money for their own keep and savings and relieve the parents of the ca care re of their boys idleness they are trained in disciplinary work and in many cases fearn their first lessons in economic order the amount of money earned by such an army runs into many hundreds of dollars through a thinning season yh through seven or ei eight glit years rough this practice ce of organizing boys has become firmly established in the Brig brigham harn district and the boys I 1 ook look ahead to it this year before the work begins it is planned to call all the bo boys ys together in a large room at the high school to discuss thinning work with charts diagrams and d tonnage figures and by the use of a blackboard and thinning ii implements we can make plain to the boys v what hat constitutes good thinning and what it means in money to have a good job done when the boys understand these facts and are impressed with them the grade of will be improved the height of conservatism is found in a newspaper dis dispatch paten describing a place where barrels of beer were seized as a former brewery st louis star more than one fond parent has had the conceit taken out of him after having solved all his sons algebra problems by having j johnny return home next day to tell him the answers were all wrong |