Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1906 — LO, THE HARVEST Is PLENTY [ARTICLE]

LO, THE HARVEST Is PLENTY

Bat the Laborers Are Few—Many Men Wanted In the Northwest * Fields. Minneapolis, Aug. 4.'—A bumper crop in the northwest and no men to harvest it. The farm labor situation in Minnesota is the worst in the history of the state. Fifteen thousand men are needed in Minnesota, lowa and the two Dakotas, and about 1,000 are available. The wages offered by the farmers range from $1.75 to $3 a day and board, hut the jobs go begging. A thousand men are needed at Minneapolis at as high wages as are paid in the country, but the available men refuse to work. All the railroads have made a special rate of $6.50 to any point in the harvest belt and farmers are willing to pay the transportation for men they need.