The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-20
KANSAS FARMERS EXPERTS IN
EMPLOYING LA5oR-AAVE REG
ULAR METHODS.
STUDENTS BEST WORKMEN
And Are Secured BY Regular Con.
tract From Kansas and Eastern
Colleges Hoboes Are Now Barred
as Worthless in the Field.

Topeka, July 10 Kansas has had
no difficulty i'm securing enough out
side harvest hands this year to gather
the wheat crop. As result the crop
is now all in the shock or stack \
small pant of it is in the ears en-
route to market ThrcshiuE will be
gin next week and the railroads will
soon be- taken to their capacity in
hauling the wheat.
The farmers OF Kansas have the
harvest hand problem down to a sci.
ence They know exactly how to pro.
ceed and where to look for outside
harvest hands They receive much
aid from the state free employment
7 bureau. which was established some
/ years ago when the lack of help
caused much wheat TO be lost in
Kansas. Harvest hands now have
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as lawyer or doctor. Year after
year they work for the same far.
mers They will start in each year
with their client in Southern Kan
sas. where the harvest is early, and
gradually work north until the har-
vest is over. Then they join their
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winter The farmers who have no
regular harvest hands ON whom they
can depend each year must take their
chances with the common run of la
bor. As a rule this is unsatisfactory.
Among the most desirable class OF
harvest hands are the college stu
fields not only for the pay, but for
the exercise. There is no work more
healthy than that in wheat field,
and the pay is above the average.
Several Eastern colleges send regular
delegations of students out each year.
They find work at regular intervals
and places.
For some years the farmers draft
ed" hobOcs who were trampina
through the country The hoboes
would be rounded up at the muzzle
of shotguns and forced to work in
the harvest fields. But the farmers
have found that this doesn't pay
A.. l.,
fact. If hobo wants to work he nov
finds 1t hard 20 secure II. The Of
ficials of each town keep the far
mers posted when they come in "a
employ help. The hobo is cut out
of the flock every time. When he
moves TO the next town he finds
that rhe officials there have beer
warned of his coming and he is
blacklisted there. II the hoboes real
ly wanted permanent work II would
be different. But the trouble is nC
matter how anxious they seem tC
want 10 work, they cannot be de
pended upon for more than two days
labor Most OF them gcr sick the
first day. They are such nuisance
in this respect that they are barred
entirely This is very satisfactory
to farmers.
For some years. before the farmers
found out that they Were worthless
as harvest hands, they stunned Kan
sas in their trans-contincntal tramps
. but now they can make the iourne,
through the state NOT only with th'
assurance that they will not be draft
: ed as harvest hands, but with th
! knowledge that they cant secure job
4 they want them.
! The wheat crop will not likely b.
. threshed out as quickly this year a
usual This is due 10 the fact tina
more of the crop Is in stack thai
in past years. The peculiar seaso
cut the straw short and most of tn
wheat had 10 be cut with headers
The straw was too short to bint
The sale of binding twine in tn
state this year was only about >
per cent OF the average. Wheat en-
. by header must be stacked, an
when once in the stack the farmer
: are in no rush to thresh. The acre
age OF shock wheat will be threshe
out i'm short order. Then threshin
viii drag. The farmers are watcl
ing the market closely. If the pric
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