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Show during the next 12 months, they will help a great deal. If their patriotism Is at all manifest, not to say militant, they will help a great deal. For the nation to mature a wheat crop and then fail to harvest it would be exactly as bad policy as for the government to mobilize and train an army and then poison it. Shortage of Harvest Labor. Of all the agricultural labor problems prob-lems confronting the farmers of the country at this time, probably the most serious is that of getting enough help to harvest the wheat crop. In normal times there was a shifting population of from 30,000 to 50,000 men who followed fol-lowed the harvest season from the South to the North of the wheat belt. Floating labor is no longer available to any such great extent, and the matter mat-ter c f harvest labor, always a problem, . is now a more serious one. Mr. E. E. Frizell, the department of agriculture's farm help specialist for Kansas, recently re-cently wrot : "After full and complete com-plete investigation, I am free to say Hiat the farmers of Kansas wil' not be able to save the wheat crop unless Uiey cai. get help from some of the urrouii('.:g states." What is true of Kansas is probably true of most of the other Vheat states. The department of agriculture and the department of labor, la-bor, with fairly adequate funds available, avail-able, are using their best i.T.mJs. to solve the problem, which they undoubtedly undoubt-edly will do. But the city people of the statgs involved, by proper organization organ-ization and co-operation, can help a great deal. If they care at all for mare wheat bread and less war bread |