Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 26 | Farm Labor

FARM LABOR. According to a Topeka, Kan., dispatch, dis-patch, "it is the hope and expectation of the administration" that farmers will be given deferred classification. Governor Capper recently wrote to the president urging the furloughing of skilled farmers at harvest time, and steps to prevent the drafting of farm laborers, in view of the serious farm labor shortage in Kansas. We are not informed as to the labor situation, present pres-ent or prospective, on the Kansas farms, but a week or two ago the Fair-bury Fair-bury News, published across the line in Nebraska, gave the neighboring state the following dig: Kansas has already begun her annual chorus in demand for harvest har-vest hands. The only difference is that this year she started it on January 1, when she usually waits until sometime in June. Did you ever notice that no other state but Kansas ever needed harvest hands'? Other states raise just as much corn, and wheat, and oats, and hell, as Kansas; but somehow they never have been able to impress the pub-lie pub-lie with their needs. But Kansas Kan-sas is there with that "harvest haud" stuff, and she has gotten more advertising out of it than all the other.states in the Union, and several times more than she was entitled to.. As Nebraska occupies seventh position posi-tion in the list of agricultural states, while Kansas is No. 14, it may bo that the sarcasm of the Fairbury paper is well placed.