Show WAGES FOR HARVEST LABOR prices vary in different nt counties in in kansas labor problem greatest in wheat belt kansas state farm bureau lias has just finished making it ii surley suney to find out what nhat fu farmers rillers oner oer the state are hur h ur ing on paying for harvest labor tills year A eft was sent to all county agents and all farm bureau officers in tho the state they were asked to gather the information from froin their fanner nel neighbors alors and report to ta the e bureau in the different counties in the eastern third qt 0 the state slate range iau per day to per adly diy for single men with it a general average of per iier day in the big wheat belt in south central kansas where the alie pr problem of harest lumert labor is greatest prices range from per day to the major majority ity of replies stated that to 3 ia would ha be paid in the big wheat belt A few believe wages for harvest labor would be as low as the aver average age for the big wheat belt as giden on lit in replies to tile the questionnaire was nas 3 30 per day reports Ite ports front from the northwest corner of tile the tate state which Is a distinct dib hardest section by itself show that tanners farmers there are expecting to pay frow from to 1400 00 per day with an average of the eastern third of tile the state never lias has trouble in getting plenty of 1 harvest hands TI bi urit of f wheat raised there is 1 M ay ae in tho the south cartri cr traI et 46 of the state and harest lian est w always lower in the eastern part of the state it Is probable that very few hands will have to be imported to handle the crop in tills this section of the state in the south central section of 0 the state however a large number of hands will have to be imported many of these mill how flow out of oklahoma following tile the harvest the kansas hamest usually ripens a week or two later than that in oklahoma anil and linnon traveling northward after tile ho oklahoma harvest li anest usually find the kansas harvest ut at its crest in tho the south central counties aluch of the kansas wheat lias has been abandoned alid the land placed to other crops giov Ilo ever wever the wheat li 13 l i reported good gond in the south central counties with very little abandoned it Is probate le that from wo to 0 2000 extra hands will be needed in ineich each of tile lie b big wheat counties in this section |