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Show ' j : x I ; IT'S THEIR WELFARE FARM EFFORT Lead Ing all Wilford stake affairs, including the Farm FUNda, are left to right, Rex C. Reeve, first counselor; George Aposhian, president, and Holger Petersen, second counselor. REVELATIONS SPUR STAKE TO BUY FARM Against the day foretold by the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when food will be scarce, the Wilford stake bought a 235-acre farm north of Saratoga last April. Raising oats, barley, wheat and hay on the farm this year, the stake plans to put in more wheat, some potatoes, beets, beans, next next year, according to Max Tenant,, Ten-ant,, agriculture member of the stake high council. At the present time, 70 acres are in grain, 100 acres in hay and 30 acres in summer fallow. According to Mr. Tenant, "We expect to have 7200 bales of 235 tons of hay this fall, which we will sell. We will also harvest 1000 bushels of oats and 300 bushels of barley which will all be turned over to the general welfare committee of the church. There will also be 2400 bushels of wheat that we plan to sell or to store in the ward granaries. (A story about these granaries may be found elsewhere in this issue.) Eventually we will have some cattle on the farm." There was no machinery on the farm when it was purchased. The house which stands an the property proper-ty is in need of repair; a shop building, a machine shed and corrals cor-rals must all be built. In addition, there is much work to be done repairing fences; a well must be drilled, and the land must be prepared for seeding next spring. Headed by Holger P. Petersen, second counselor to the stake president, pres-ident, the farm committee must or- Con turned on Page 2 ElEVELATIOHS Continued from Page 1 ganize the stake members, who volunteer their labor, into work gangs to accomplish all this work, at the same time other gangs are harvesting the crops this year. Other members of the committee are Mr. Tenant, C. M. Bolton, Les Christensen, Kenneth White, Stan. Jackson, Bern Mendenhall J. Girard Latimer and Alvin Milles. Although there is a paid resident resi-dent farmer and a hired man, all other labor on the farm is strictly voluntary. All summer long it will be possi. ble to see groups of office workers, doctors, salesmen, machinists toiling toil-ing after their regular work hours to pull weeds, fork hay onto a flatrack, repair fences and do all the other back-breaking jobs incidental in-cidental to running a farm. |