Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1901 — STILL CRYING FOR THEM. [ARTICLE]

STILL CRYING FOR THEM.

Kansas Wants 5,000 Men Besides Women to Cook for Them. Kansas wants men to harvest its wheat crop this year and can’t get enough 01 them. The farmers have called on Mis souri and the Eastern States for more harvest hands. Hundreds are being shipped into the State every day, chiefly through the Missouri free employment agency; but the agency is unable to supply men fast enough to meet the demand. The wheat crop of Kansas, though partly a failure in some counties, is still so large in other counties as to be bey on 1 the capacity of the people of the State to handle it. The tremendous success of last year’s wheat crop encouraged the farmers to plant a greater acreage than ever before. Orders for 5,000 men have already been sent out to harvest the great crop, and then to thresh it after it has been harvested. Most of the jobs offered are good for from I*o to 100 days, and there is a fair chance for steady employment for the rest of the year to the best men. Wages range from $1.50 to $2.50 a day according to the kind of work and include board and lodging. Women are wanted by the farmers wives to help to cook for the hungry farm hands, but it is next to impossible to get cooks. Good wagAs are offered, far higher wages than those paid in the city. The high wages paid by Kansas farmers for labor has caused trouble to the railroads are building extensions in southern Kansas and Oklahoma. The roads have been paying $1.50 n day for traek laborers, but these men have found they can earn $2 a day in th* harvest fields, and many of them have quit their jobs and gone to work for the farmers.