28 BULLETIN 1020, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
from Federal and State funds combined. Such temporary offices 
were established in 1919 in Oklahoma at Alva, Carmen, Kingfisher, 
Woodward, and Guymon ; in Kansas at Liberal, Goodland, and Dodge 
City; in South Dakota at Aberdeen, Redfield, and TTatertown; in. 
. North Dakota at Oakes, Jamestown, and Grand Forks. In 1920 tem- 
porary offices were maintained at most of these towns, as well as in 
Bismarck and Minot, X. Dak., and Fort Worth and Amarillo, Tex. 
Extra clerks also have been added to the more important permanent 
offices, such as Kansas City, Wichita, Salina, Hutchinson, Sioux City, 
and Fargo, during the harvest. 
These Federal and State employment offices, however, are merely 
central distributing points for harvest labor, and must be supple- 
mented by local distributing agencies in each county. The county 
agricultural agents, farm bureaus, local chambers of commerce, local 
bankers or business men, and other organizations or individuals 
have been made local representatives of the various employment 
offices. These local representatives receive the orders of the individ- 
ual farmers for men and telephone or mail them to the labor distrib- 
uting points. The men are then sent to the local representatives, who 
place them on the individual farms. Relatively few men are sent 
directly from the employment offices to the farmer. 
One of the most serious needs of the labor-distribution organiza- 
tion in the wheat belt is the establishment of a large, well-equipped 
office at Kansas City, Mo. 
TRANSPORTATION OF HARVEST LABOR. 
The expenses of the large number of harvest hands who come 
long distances to the harvest are heavy before they begin work. 
(Table 9.) 
Table 9/ — Expenses incurred by 2,6 ' f 3 transient harvest hands, before beginning 
work in the harvest. 1 
Expense. 
Number 
of cases. 
Percent- 
age of 
cases. 
Less than $10 
663 
248 
424 
324 
228 
164 
92 
117 
38 
316 
18 
2 
1 
5 
3 
25.1 
$10 to §14.99 -.- 
9.4 
$15 to $19.99 
16.0 
S20 to $24.99. . .*. ■_ 
12.3 
$25 to $29.99 '.. 
8.6 
$30 to $34.99 
6.2 
$35toS39.99 
3.5 
$40 to $44.99 
4.4 
$45 to $49.99 
1.4 
$50 to $59.99 . 
12.0 
$60toS69.99 
$70 to $79.99 ' 
$"-0 to $^9.99 
S90 to $99.99. 
$100 or more 
1 An effort was made to ascertain the expenses of these men while following the harvest, but very few 
were able to give any satisfactory data on the subject. 
