Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1906 — NEES TWENTY THOUSAND MEN. [ARTICLE]

NEES TWENTY THOUSAND MEN.

Canadian Northwest Cannot Harvest 'Wheat Without Them. Tlie wheat growers, of Manitoba and Rrtskfttebewan have sent forth a cry to "the older provinces in the Dominion for men to assist them in harvesting this year's crop of wheat. The yield will be greater Than in any previous season. Coupl?d with the yield is tlie increase in acre-age--ami the farmers do not know where They will secure sufficient help to harvest • the "crop, - - Tlie Manitoba government estimates already in the province will be required that fully 20,000 men in addition to those already in the province will be required to c-are for the crop of wheat. The government has undertaken to secure men from the older provinces* and agents have been placed in the larger cities structions to seeure men and forward them to Winnipeg, from which point they will be distributed to the grain centers. The general prosperity of the country, which insures work for everyone; the heavy demand for laborers in western Canada and in our own Western States, and the usual demand for extra men at this season of the year for the gathering of the crops, have resulted in-an unusual shortage of farm help.