Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-07-13
HARVEST LABOR
SITUAT| ION GOOD
| REPORTS STATE
Work Throughout the South
west Is Proceeding Salts
factorily; Wheat Crop Is
Better Than Usual.

fnN MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wREl
Kansas City, No. duly Eth,
harvest labor situation in Kansa.
and the southwest is generally goo,
according TO officials of the fedora
feee employment bureau in Ran
sas City KanS,. and the Missouri
lureau Of farm labor. conducted bS
state authorities with federal aid
in Kansas City. Mo.
Al the opening of the month q
surplus of farm labor was evident
There were a number of instances
a men who came back from the
harvest fields declaring that they
had been una BILE to find employ
Inent. At the end of the first week
in July scattered requests were re-
ceived for more harvest laburers 20
be sent TO counties in northwestern
Kansas. a need which is being
filled, according TO the federal en-
ployment agents.
Generally speaking the southwest
has been supplied with all the har-
vest labor necessary as soon as the
wheat crop was ready for cutting
this season. Indeed, a number Of
men who came west to work in the
harvest fields were kept waiting
for some because rains had delayed
the wheat harvest.
A wage standard of 20 cents an
hour, agreed upon by farmers in
the wheat bell of Kansas and an
nounced through the state land
commissioner. attracted many
workers. There have been repeated
reports, which are credited by the
federal farm labor bureau workers.
of wage cutting on the part of the
farmers who found for the first
time in years that the farm labor
supply was more than adequate and
who desired therefore to save mon
ey by paying smaller wages than
those which had been advertised.
In regard TO the car situation.
operating officials of the leading
roads through the wheat section
agree that there is al present an
inadequate supply of available cars.
Plenty of cars have been ordered
west, it is stated, but as yet they
have not arrived in sufficient num-
hers. However. an official of the
local terminal company in close
touch with the Interstate Com
merce commission declared that
although the car supply is still
somewhat short. it is better than in
other sections of the country and
better than it has been here in past
years. Railroad officials were mott
inclined to agree with this rather
optimistic estimate.
The 1920 wheat crop is beginning
to reach Hutchinson. Kans. It Isl
said to average better than for
many years. testing from so pounds !
TO G2 pounds to the bushei and
bringing $40 to $3.50 per hushel !
Yields run from - to 20 bushels to |
the acre, farmers declare.
''Grasshopper planted" wheat isl
reported to have turned out we'll in !
many places. In their attacks on
wheat fields last fan. grasshoppers
cut the heads off the wheat. caus- |
ing them to drop to the ground, =,
which resulted in tracts of Volun- |
teef wheat, Near Lyons a grower |
reported a 20-bushel to the acre !
yield from a "grasshopper-planted'
tract Extension of credits to
Farmers unable to market last
wears wheat because Of the car
shortage has been promised by fedSl
eral reserve boards, according TO
members of the Kansas committee
nyho have returned from Washing
tom after conference with the In
terstate Commerce commission.
Ideal growing weather prevailed
I'm most of the farming country Of
Kansas and Missouri during the
first week Of July. according to fed
oral weather reports issued
weekly by s. d. Flora, federal
meteorologist for Kansas. The
weather was favorable for harvest
work and corn made a vigorous
growth. In the southeastern coun-
ties corn is now four to six feet tai,
and in the northwestern section of
Kansas one to two feet. Potatoes
and. garden produce are also 70 !
ported as making good progress.
Alfalfa shows slow growth.