Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-14
10000 FARM HANDS WILL
Be NEEDED IN WHEAT BELT
Harvest for 1922 Promises TO
Be Close TO Yield of Pre-
vious Years.
TENSS NEEDS HELP FIRST
Prospective IiBrNrst IN Only Four
Tcnths az One Fer Cent Les. rhnn
Actual Yield In 1921, Says Head Of
Crop RrportinE board.
Ky Clayton WhitchIII.

United News STAFF Correspondent.
WASiiINGToN May lathe 1922
wheat harvest promises TO be close
TO tho yield OF previous years. accord.
ing 10 the estimates OF the Depart
ment ot Agriculture, and. This points
10 employment for at least 10000
iarmhands. who Will be muster ed
through the wheat belt bv the United
States Employment Service.
Down in Texas. the first week in
June. the harvest begins and the gov
eminent hopes to gather there tho
hrst 1000 OF the reapinE army which
grows like SNOWFALL. extending its
activity by the end OF summer TO
North Dakota
Larger Than Average Crop.
while the prospective harvest is
only four-tcnths OF one per cent lcss
than the actual harvest OF 1921
Chairman Leon II. f'stahrook. OF the
| crop Reporting BOARD. told the
lnited News. ut is per cent more
/ than the average winter wheat crop
81 the last ten years. OF course. the
I final out-turn will he more or less
than Indicated by the May grow
/ ing conditions, as the weather con-
d!iions may be more or less favor
able than the average.
Upon the basis az the acreage to
l." harvested and the growing condi-
ton on May ! we have estimated tina I
the winter wheat harvest this year
viii be 5Si.193 600 bushels. as COM
pared with $50 ,oa2 600 bushels har-
vested last year.
I'm discussing the wheat crop of
the United States. il must be re-
mcmhcrcd that it, 10 harvest OF two
s"parat. and DISTINCT crops-that of
winter wheat planted In the fail of
ltA TO-,
wheat sown in April and May in the
Northern tier OF states.
IT is. naturally. entirely too soon
10 estimate what the acreage or pro-
AUCTION OF spring wheat Will he this
year In former years the acreage
has ranged from $4,000. 600 to 10000
400. with maximum Of 100000 In
1919. For the winter wheat crop the
department estimated that 44.S47.OO0
acres We're sown in the fall OF 1921.
| that ia per cent OF this acreage has
been abandoned through winter Kill
ing ana other causes. leaving 3S.l3I-
oOo acres to he harvested. The grow :
ing condition on May / was estimated
as $50 per cent normal. as com
pared with SIS per cent n year ago
and tcn-year average OF ST. per
cent. The acreage TO be harvested in
winter wheat is 4.5.5.000 acres less
than the average harvested in 1921"
The Farm Labor Bureau OF the United
states Employment Service has made
extensive preparations for the open
ing OF the season. il was learned at
the Office OF Director Francis !. Jones
Last year. approximately $4,000 men
were placed. and at the height OF the
season in South Dakota 600 men
per week were placed through the
government agency.
George T.. Tucker. field representa-
tive. in charge of the farm work. Will
cooperate with Federal directors
state and municipal employment ser
vices. county farm bureau agents aud
agricultural associations in the clear
ance OF farm labor throughout the
wheat belt. The chief work Of clear
nnce is TO he done in the following
states: Texas. Oklahoma. Colorado.
Kansas. Missouri Nebraska Iowa.
Montana. Wyoming. North Dakota
South Dakota. Minnesota and Illinois.
The latest employment survey OF
the service reveals a. substantial de-
mand for experienced farm help. and
with proper growing conditions II ia
expected that the $4,000 figure will be
repeated.