| Show old race passes we need a poet to sing the song of a passiel passin passi nL lg race the american harvest hand time was when the scorching summer sun ot of the great reat middle western wheat belt beat down on a migratory Br altory herd ot of adventurous men hound bound on a mission both economic and TO romantic Mantle to quote a staff correspondent ot of the kansas city star they led a hard life and followed the harvest harlest from oklahoma on north through kansas nebraska and the dakotas into canada blazing sun and intense heat to tight fight all the way dust of threshers thre dust ot of many a weary mile ot of country road to a new stand these men spent oppressive nights in barns traveled in box cars often were robbed 0 of their earnings while on the road but the harvest hand took this his bumps without great complaint his spirit grew as hard as the calloused cal louses on his hands and as rough ns as his tanned skin he exchanged chews ot of tobacco with his partners ot of the road swa ippel rough and ready yarns and grew philosophical but today the species is tare rare farm machinery has wrought a gret greit change in the farm labor situation on the wheat dla plains ins many fai farms nis require no outside assistance at harvest those thata thad do are supplied by motor car hands bands a rew genus that infests tin the grain belt jn dilapidated tl fl ivers the government maintains permanent employment bureaus in many towns iowna throughout the wheat heat country but machinery lias has displaced about 75 per cent ot of human help kansas has a banner crop ot of wheat it may be the die greatest in its history and FO 0 per cent of it will be harvested by motor malo r car hands bawls the product ot of au a u efficient effie fent age it takes fewer ewer 0 of this new species ot of harvest hands to to handle the grain because they can get about with greater ease they can do more work with less labor than their mure more romantic predecessors pred but won even they will grow fewer and fewer ewer with the passing years as aa the use 0 of machinery spreads throughout the wheat country they are the remnant 0 of a picturesque race telegram lot |
