The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-25
sun AIDS HARVEST
Absence of Rain Also Ripening
Kansas Wheat.
Ideal Weather Is fastening
Harvest Operations.
BINDERS HUMMING IN FIELDS
Headers VIII Be Working Soon
Along Oklahoma Border.
Rush Labor to Fields-Prom-
Using Reports Come In.
BINDERS RUNNING IN FIELDS

tinued hot weather and the absence OF
rain are aiding materially in the ripen-
ing of the Kansas wheat crop and are
Fastening harvesting operations. ac-
cording to report received here today.
Turnout the central part of Kansas,
along the Oklahoma border, binders
are in the fields and by the end of the
week headers will be in operation, 1t
was said. Calls for workers in the
field are coming rapidly and 2,50o men
were sent out in two days by the Kan
sas City office of the United States
employment service. An unusually
large number Of negroes have regis
tered. for harvest work, but so far the
calls for negroes have been small.
Last year there was some demand for.
the negro workers but they were not
available.
Many places are. open for women
agent has just begun operations in
northern Texas and it will be his task
to keep harvest labor moving north
as the harvest progresses.
Harvesting $4,000 Acres.
Leavenworth, Kan, June Is
Leavenworth county is harvesting
5000 acres of wheat this week,
which according to the county agri-
cultural agent, will average twenty
bushels to the acre. Labor is scarce
and prisoners from the state peniten-
tfary are being released in evening
after their work at the prison to as
sist in the cutting.
Coffey County Acreage Doubled.
Burlington, June 25.-Wheat har-
vest has begun in Coffey county. The
acreage is more than double what it
was last season. Recent heavy rains
and winds have caused quite bit of
the bottom and rank growth of wheat
to go down. but most of it is so it can
be bound with the binder. The pros
pect is very good and much better
than it was thought a week or ten
days ago. A number of binders were
busy all day Sunday.
Harvest Laborers on Strike.
Abilene, June 25.-The itinerant
harvesters. of whom there are scores
in town, all struck for so cents an
hour Tuesday. They have been work
could not afford the lower rate. They
will generally refuse to work in hay
fields where men are needed.
Harvest has begun on many farms
with the grain difficult to cut because
Of the lodged grain in the lower lands
Wheat Grower Is Killer.
Atchison, June 25.-Seventy-five
acres of wheat will be harvested by
volunteers for the widow and children
of the late George Diebolu, a. promi-
! nent farmer, who was killed in a mo-
tor car accident north of here Mon
neighbors and will be shocked by At
Gibson business men who served as
shockers last year on account of scare
ity of help due to the war. Diebolt
planned to begin cutting the wheat
the day of his death.
Dozens of Binders Busy.
Cottonwood Falls, June 25.-Dozens
of binders are humming in Chase
county wheat fields today, and the
harvest here may be said to be fairly
launched.
Under a scorching sun. wheat fields
which are not yet ripe are taking color
rapidly SO there is little doubt
that all fields in the county will be
ready for the reaper by the latter part
of the week.
Chase county probably will average
twenty-five to thirty bushels to the
acre this season.
In addition to doubling its wheat
acreage this season, this county has
! something like 100 acres of pure
[ Kanred wheat which it is expected
will show an average yield of from
| three to five bushels an acre over
| the other wheat.
Hcssian Fly Shows Up.
Lenora, June 25.-The Hessian fly
has made it's appearance in the wheat
fields of Sheridan, Decatur and Nor
| ton counties during the last week.
| The damage SO far is not great, and
|
not expected that there will be any
! material loss.
Salina, June 25.-Harvest is on in
! full blast here.
See Big Yield in Lyon.
Emporia, June 25.-Estimates of
average yield an acre of wheat in
Lyon county are from twenty-five to
| thirty bushels to the acre, with a
probability that twenty-five bushels
| is the more accurate guess. Harvest is
on in full swing, and weather condi-
| tions are excellent. No labor short
age has been reported.
Kanred to Make 35 Bushels?
Emporia, Kan, June 25.-Accord-
ing to tests completed in Lyon county
today, Kanred wheat will average 80
to 35 bushels to the acre as compared
with the yield of other varieties OF
, about 20 bushels, c. o. johnson, wheat
inspector of the Kansas Crop I'M
provement association announced to-
day.
Farmers are advised to plant Kan
red wheat extensively next fall.