The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-29
Insure Against Hail and Pray
That 1t Won't Rain.
That Is FrizeIFs Advice to Kan
SaS Wheat Raisers.
NO OTHER DANGERS TO CROPS
Many College Students Will
Help in the Harvest.
Barton County Has Largest
Acreage in the State.
If it rains, pray.


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If the 1. w. w. come, shoot en-.
That is the protection recommended
today by Representative e. Z. Frizell
of Pawnee county against the three
possible dangers to the monster Kan
sas wheat crop. Floods, hail and the
l. w. w. are the only danger, Frizell
declared. If they do not come, Kan
sas will produce a s475.OOO,OOO wheat
crop. Frizell declared today that
practically every acre of wheat land
west of Hutchinson will produce forty
bushels of grain.
Every state in the Union will con-
tribute to the states demands for har-
vesters. Many large employers of la
Dor in Kansas and Missouri will re-
lease men for the harvest season. One
Kansas City firm has promised to
send 1000 men to help gather the
grain. To meet the demand for 224,-
600 men. Kansas towns in the wheat
growing districts will furnish 102. 900
men, Frizen estimates. Large cities
in Kansas and other states must sup
ply 122, 900 men.
College Students to Help.
Practically every big eastern college
is sending a delegation of rah-ra h
boys to the Kansas harvest fields.
These delegations are not so large as
IN former years. Refusal of the rail-
road administration to grant rate con-
cessions for the harvest is causing
much of the trouble in meeting labor
demands Wages ranging from so to
~ cents an hour with board and Iodg-
ing are offered in many counties
Every railroad, as we'll as a number
or kansas colleges. have sent men into
other states to appeal for farm work
ers 70 help gather the wheat crop
The harvest will start in southea stern
counties about June r.
Ihe answer to anneal has beeO
wonderful in a number of cities 81
trlzell stated today. MANY firms are
releasing men for the two weeks ne
riod. 1t is to be a vacation period and
the men are released on full pay One
| Kansas City firm will send 1000 men
even if it should be necessary to
close shop during the time, the man
ager told me.
There are just three things that
can endanger a 100000 crop
One is excessive rains If it rains
pray. Another is hail. If the wheat
grower fears hail, buy insurance. The
third is the I. w. W.-shoot 'em.
May Not Have to Shoot.
! ut won't be necessary to use the
| gun If present plans are carried out
Every idle man is going to jail. And
he will stay there until the harvest is
! wheat belt have their plans worked
out for the reception of I. w. Ws
The government is sending help.
really look for some trouble. But
think we will meet it in fine shape"
FriZell declared the present whea
| crop the best he had known in the
forty-four years he has lived in Kan.
sas Out in PaWnee county, Frizel
has 5000 acres of growing wheat. Ht
estimates the field at an average o.
forty bushels an acre. He will use
| force of 100 men to harvest his crop
| Returns under the government guar
antee will amount to more than a hal
million dollars.
Records show Barton has the great
| est wheat acTeage-a total of 293.90:
acres. Hamilton county has tht
smallest acrea age-127. The Barton
county yield is estimated at more thar
100000 bushels or a return to farm
ers of that county of nearly $4,000,
600