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Show HARVESTtNQ GREAT WHEAT CROPS. One of the great problems ot the j wheat.growlng Stites-those thit pro-duce pro-duce the grain b the tens of million bushels-has alws, been to get harvest hands when needed, at -easonablc rates The Kansas farmers have solved thl problem falrlj well the present ear being the second of the operation of the r plan Uhen , Xm whMt crop of last eir was growing (William It Dropei has an extensive write-up about It Hi tho July Itevlew of Hcvlews) Iiavll . Blaine, gaining practical knowledge from hla experiments of the ear before, be-fore, asked tho count assessors of I'ratt and surrounding counties to cill a meeting of the firmer to be lull about three weeks before harvest begun be-gun nt which meeting etch farmer should state about the number of hands he would need These reorts weie for warded to Mr Illalne who sent them to the free employment agency nt Kansas City, nt the same time he advertise! for the help which the farmers sail they needed, this amounted to IS MM men, too women and Win teams These were to report to the agency nt Kansas Clt. and from tlieie be sent tn the points In the v heat In It where thes were needed Wheat growers pij on a scale thnt varies from tl ;o to jjso per day, the most expert getting S per di The cost of harvesting nn acre of wheat Is given at $6 6',, of which SI gois for Ploughing and harrowing no rents for seed. 40 cents for drilling Jl i f. r cutting. cut-ting. 1 50 foi hauling Jl 75 for thresh Ing, :5 cents for tnlne A machlni mt-ter mt-ter nnd hinder will hirvest tlfteen ama a da j. Tho yield la computed at twentv-two twentv-two bushels to the acre, so thil If the firmer sells hla wheat at 0 cents a bushel, he doubles his money Tha rnst of the harvesting Is divided Into It ro per day for the binder dilvcr, J2 50 for the team, 23 cents for the tnlne hut where a header Is used the cost fo. twlno Is cut out. The totil expense o' cutting on a large scale shades the tig. uresr a little, thus, for cutting moo acres the expense Is put at jrco of which $110 goes for horse hire nnd twine Tho farmer pays the largest wages to those who do the heavies' work The drlvm of tho binder Is among the smalles' earners; he sits under n sunshade, and hla work Is frequently given to oung women when men are scaice for the flell work. Tho shockers, haulers and siacKera get : W per das, helpers ahout the threshers are paid K 50 to H per das, the latter sum going to the feeders Railroads running Into the wheat belts give half rates to harvesters, the Santa To hiving been the first It this The trains are made up as excursions nnd these are crowded for weeks before the actual work begins Wheat cutting begins be-gins In the most southerly fields in June, and continues, working northward, north-ward, until tho middle of Juls. An Industrious In-dustrious man who works thioughout the harvesting, cm cam 1!5 during the season, nil hell 3 boarded In addition tn telr wage The women who go into this employment arc generalls wives of thoe who go to libor In tho fields, although al-though manj a soung woman whose regular enmplnymcnt Is In a vlllaga store at S3 01 so a week, is willing to go hanestlng, taking the place of binder driver at Si Co per das', or It she Is stiong and enduring, she mas work as hauler or shocker nt J2 50 pci das Other emplojmcnt ageniles are bUng established at convenient distributing points throughout the State, and the question of saving the w licit crops, while not altogether solved, Is in a fair way of complete solution |
