Show f S GETTING OETTING THE TIlE HANDS t 5 One One of the essentials of modern industry is the mobilization of labor especially in the agricultural industries It is wOI worse e than useless to devote ote fertile a acres to bops hOpS if they cannot b be he picked at the proper season from lac lack of pick pickers rs to beet culture for the I sugar factory if the beets cannot be tended to the raising of a crop of ot wheat if it cannot be he harvested The supply of labor in adequate amount and in the f very time of n need d i is comin coming to be he of itself a new industry industry industry in in- and a very ery remunerative one In Illinois an enterprising man is making a fortune upon a a. capital capitalI I not Dot of money but of labor li He rents b beet ct land by bythe bythe bythe the acre from the farmers of that State stipulating that the land shall be he planted in beets by the said jd farmers They themselves would not dare to put in so large an acreage not because th the market would not justify it if but b because they could not find the labor Jabor labo leed needed J to weed and arid tend the crops In the I nick Dick of time to save the crop the renter appears upon the scene e with a trainload of men inen women and children turns them out into the fields the beets are fire trimmed and weeded with marvelous Illar-elous dispatch Many Man hands make light work All hands thereupon are bundled into the train a again ain and are off for another another an an- other of the renters renter's hundred acre beet fields In Kansas a labor supply company takes early in the season an accurate census in every cry county in the st State t of how iov many hands both male and female will be need needed d by each farmer for the wheat harvest est Then when the wheat harvest arrives an adequate supply of labor labov collected fr from nu the cities is sent by lj trainloads at fit half rates into southern Kam Kansas m where the wheat ripens fi first st This army o of labor moves northward l keeping pace pace about about twenty five fi c n miles les a day with lay with the ripening of the tile wb wheat at Thus in iu a couple of weeks the great wheat crop of Kansas is harvested in good style and condition neither too green gree nor too r ripe pe and the harvesters bar move on northward into Iowa The fhe whole incident presents a It very interesting and a n Yer very instructive phase of the nationalization of labor |