State's Farm Women Earn
a Chapter in War History
Nebraska City (U.P.)–Otoe County Agent A. H. De Long said Wednesday that when the history of the war is written, one chapter should be given over exclusively to farm women for their unselfish sacrifices incident to wartime food production.
He said newspapers have carried reams of copy about the city dweller going into the country to shock grain and they deserve this recognition. But, De Long emphasized, people should not lose sight of the fact that in addition to their home duties, thousands of farm women have spent long hours on the tractor in connection with cultivation of corn and harvesting of grain.
And they will be in the fields, too, at cornhusking time.
Old Bill's Shock Troops
Greeley, Nev. (U.P.)–"Old Bill" Berney's "shock troops" have won the farm labor battle in the Greeley sector.
Bill, who was forced to retire from active farm work because of ill health several years ago, recruited his shock troops from among Greeley boys ranging from 10 to 13.
Several score of them were loaded into trucks and driven to the farms. There "Old Bill" painstakingly showed them how to build a shock and stayed until he was convinced they had learned their lesson. Then he would go to the next farm and repeat the operation.
"I wanted to do all I could for the war effort," he said. "Now I have the double satisfaction of helping the farmers and of getting some spending money for the kids."
Crop Corps
Beatrice, Neb. (U.P.)–Gage county's U.S. crop corps nearly tripled their work on farms this year over 1942. Cliff Ashburn, farm labor assistant, revealed Wednesday 308 volunteers from Beatrice, Wymore and Filley put in 7,925 man-hours in the field. They shocked 12,028 acres of small grain and put up 2,103 bales of hay.
