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GET MANY LABORERS
FOR HARVEST FIELDS

lRy Associated Press to The Banner1
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 1e-The
harvest labor situation in Kansas and
the Southwest is generally good, &C.
cording to officials OF the federal free
employment bureau in Kansas City,
Kan, and the Missouri Bureau Of
Farm labor, conducted by state author
tiles with federal aid in Kansas City,
No.
At the opening of this month sur
plus Of farm labor was evident There
were a number Of instances Of men
who came back from the harvest fisids
declaring that they had been unable
to find employment. At the end Of
the nrst week In July scattered re-
quests were received for more harvest
laborers to be sent to counties In
northwestern Kansas, q need which
is being filed. according to the feder.
al employment agents.
Generally speaking the Southwest
has been supplied with all the harvest
labor necessary as soon as the wheat
crop was ready for cutting this season.
Indeed number Of men who came
west to work in the harvest fields
were kept waiting for, some because
of rains. has delayed the wheat har-
vest. ,
A wage standard Of 70 cents an hour
agreed upon by farmers in the wheat
belt Of Kansas and announced through
the state labor commissioner, Samuel
Crawford, attracted many workers.
There have been repreated reports,
which are credited by the federal farm
labor bureau workers, of wage-cutting
on the part of the farmer who found
for the first time in years that the
farm labor supply was more than ade.
Quate and who desired therefore to
save money by paying smaller wages
than those which had been advertised.
In regard to the car situation, oper-
ating officials of the leading roads
through the wheat sections agree that
there is at present an inadequate sup
ply of available cars. Plenty of cars
have been ordered west, 1t is stated,
but as yet they have not arrived in
suicient numbers. However,ff an Of
ficial Of the local terminal company
I'm close touch with the interstate COM
merce commission declared that al.
though the car supply is still some
what short, It is better than in other
sections of the country and better
than 1t has been here In past years.
Railroad officials were not inclined to
agree with this rather optimistic esti-
mate.
The 1920 wheat crop is beginning to
reach Hutchinson, Kan. 1t is said to
average better than for many years,
testing from so to SO pounds to the
bushel and bringing $40 to $3.50 per
bushel. Yields run from ~ to 20
bushels to the acre. farmers declare.
"Grasshopper planted" wheat is re-
ported to have turned out we'll in
many places. In their attacks on
wheat helds- Last fall, grasshoppors
cut the heads on the wheat. causing
them to drop to the sorund. which re-
suited In tracts OF volunteer wheat.
Near Lyons . grower reported . 20
bushel to the acre yield from . grass.
hopperplanted" tract. Extension Of
credits to farmers unable to market
last years. wheat because Of car short. |
ass hss been promised by federal re.
serve boards according to membsrs of
the Kansas committee who have rs.
turned from Washington after confer.
enoe with the interstate commerce
commission. 4
Ideal growing weather prevailed in
most Of the farming country Of Kansss
md Missoari during the Arst week Of