p. 27 | Harvest Hands Needed

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 15, 1912

Harvest Hands Needed

the loss to employers exceeds $2,500,000.

— Midsummer is here, and the golden grain, from which comes the “staff of life,” is once more ripe in the fields, with not enough labor to harvest it. The usual appeal is out for thousands of harvest hands to help with the crops in the North and Northwest. Circulars are being issued by the Great Northern and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railways, giving a list of towns in Minnesota and North Dakota that need harvest hands, together with the number required and the approximate wages, which vary from $1.75 to $3.50 a day. In addition, an appeal has been sent out for 27,500 men to come to the harvest-fields in States other than those named. Telegrams are being sent by the farmers, asking help in moving their crops.