-5- 



This table shows that net profits from the unthinned area were 

 greater for the first two years but in the third year the acre profits 

 were $18 per acre larger from the thinned area. (Washington Expt . Sta. 

 Mimeo . Cir. 1) 



—J . K • Shaw 



TREE RIPENED FRUIT 



In a test by the Illinois Experiment Station in cooperation 

 v/ith chain stores three types of peaches were offered for sale; (1) green 

 ripe, (2) firm ripe, (3) treo ripe. Public preference vvas decidedly in 

 favor of tree-ripened fruit even when priced 3 cents per pound above the 

 others. 35 bushels of tree-ripened peaches were sold in the time it took 

 to sell 4 bushels of green peaches. There was less loss of tree-ripened 

 fruit because it moved out so much more rapidly. 



This probably would apply to peaches anywhere. V/ould Mcintosh 

 apples sell faster in the fall months if they v;ere ready to eat when of- 

 fered for sale? 



R. A- Van Meter 



"FARIvi HELP CM'T TAKE IT" 



"The help vre get today just can't take it. Why my ten year old 

 boy knows more about farming and can do more around my place than any two 

 of these 'greenhorns'. I can't spend all my tine showing this class of 

 help hov: to do the work; if I do I won't get anything else done." These 

 and similar remarks have been heard recently v/hon we have been discussing ' 

 the farm labor problem with Massachusetts farmers. Ve agree with them 100^. 



In agreeing v/ith the farmers we havo neither helped nor altered 

 the situation. V/'o hope that we appreciate both sides of the question, th© 

 employer's and the employeo's, We realize the inadequacy of this type of 

 help, that it is not capable of taking over a particular job at first and 

 doing it efficiently v;ithout considerable supervision. Times have changed; 

 we can no longer go to the store and buy everything vre want without bother- 

 ing with rationing tickets. Neither can we stop at the gas station and say 

 "Fill her up." In a sense farm labor is rationed and wq must make the b6st 

 of the supply available and use it accordingly. Yes, farmers sputter about 

 the help problem as v;ell as the rationing system. Non'j of us relish the 

 many problems which the war has forced upon us. 



