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Farmers Need Help

 Hampton, July 10 - Farmers in north central Iowa need help very much these days. As is the usual thing at this time of the year the oats and hay are ready to be harvested. The one or two farm hands employed on each farm are insufficent to do all the work of harvesting. The floating population in the country towns is small and as a conseqence every farmer is short on help. Wages of $2.50 per day and board do not bring the workers, for they are not in the community. The general result is that the women and girls are obliged to go into the fields for about one month each summer. It is no uncommon sight to see a lad of ten years of age running a mower and two or three young ladies loading or stacking. It is conservatively estimated that five hundred to a thousand men could find employment in Franklin county for the next month at almost their own wages.

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