City Lads Learn Farm Work to Help Meet Rural Labor Shortage

Wayland Magee, member of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce agricultural committee which is seeking to school city high school lads for farm work in an effort to help meet the rural labor shortage, Saturday took advantage of the plan by hiring five boys for his farm near Bennington. Because of the rain the lads were put to work inside butting up three hundred pounds of seed potatoes. Ernest Reeves, 16, of 5546 North Thirty-fifth street, is shown at the task (upper left). When the outside dried a little, the helpers went out and picked up fallen ears off a 50-acre cornfield. Shown at this job (upper right), are left to right–Charles Mollak, 15, of 4235 Laurel avenue; Douglas Nielsen, 15, of 3652 Ames avenue, and Charles Stone, 16, of 4363 Laurel avenue. Between times they busied themselves at other tasks. Reeves is shown (lower left) learning the intricacies of feeding a hog from Kim Magee, 14. At lower right is Dave Nielsen, 18, of 3652 Ames avenue, putting the plow wheels on a tractor. Magee found the youths willing workers. The lads found the experience a profitable and novel one.–World-Herald Photos.