Seedtime and harvest : a graphic summary of seasonal work on farm crops . st of winter wheat begins in central Texas usually about May -o,but is of little importance until central Oklahoma is reached about .Tune o. in tnissection the army of transient harvest hands begins to assemble, and reacbes irs_ maxi-mum size in central Kansas, where the harvest begins usually about June lo. ayJune 2r> in the normal year, there are 50,000 transient laborers, it is estimated, work-ing in the wheat fields of Kansas. Part of them have come in from the South, uponcompletion of the harvest there : part of
Seedtime and harvest : a graphic summary of seasonal work on farm crops . st of winter wheat begins in central Texas usually about May -o,but is of little importance until central Oklahoma is reached about .Tune o. in tnissection the army of transient harvest hands begins to assemble, and reacbes irs_ maxi-mum size in central Kansas, where the harvest begins usually about June lo. ayJune 2r> in the normal year, there are 50,000 transient laborers, it is estimated, work-ing in the wheat fields of Kansas. Part of them have come in from the South, uponcompletion of the harvest there : part of them have been gathered from the cities andother centers of employment in the East, largely by the public and private labor agenciesin Kansas City and other points; and in part the army is composed of local laborassembled from adiacent towns and villages. By .luly 1 harvest has begun in south-central Nebraska, and the harvest army, constantly disintegrating and being remtoiceaby fresh recruits, is l)usy iu the wheat fields of that State. Seasonal Work on Farm Crops. 17. Figs and 16.—\A mter-wheat harvest becomes general in central Oklahoma usuallyabout June lo. in central Kansas about June 25, in southern Nebraska al)out Julv 5in southwestern Illinois, southern Indiana, and eastern Maryland it is i^eneral u><uallvfrom June 21 to July 1. Along the northern margin of the winter-wheat region iiNew lork and Michigan, and also in eastern Washington and Oregon, harvest isgeneral about July 21. Two weeks after harvest is general it is over in all theseregions except m eastern Washington and Oregon, where the harvest mav not behnished before August 20 or 25. Records indicate that the average amount of laborrequired to harvest an acre of wheat in southeastern Pennsvlvania. western Illinoisand Kansas is about 3 man and 4 horse hours, and in thrashing about the sjimeamount. In California, with a combine harvester, the figures are 2 man and 10 horsehours per acre; and in easter
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