6 BULLETIN 1211, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
Table 4 shows thé amount of education attained by 1,016 har 
vest hands. It will be noted that 32 per cent had not completed th 
eighth grade, and that 73.5 per cent had no education beyond the 
grammer grades. This figure corresponds closely with the per- 
centages obtained in the harvest of 1920, 75.8 per cent.2 It wag 
somewhat surprising to find that § 
20.3 per cent of the harvesters} 
interviewed had attended high § 
school, but this high percentage 
is in part accounted for by the 
t 
fact that many young men mak- 
ing the harvest have not com- 
pleted their education and will 
eventually become professional or 
business men. Table 5  shows_ 
; 
Fic. 3.—Anexperienced Kansas harvest hand. This 
lad, a Southern farmer’s son, was making the har- 
vest for the sixth time. Thousands of sturdy, 
clean and competent farmer boys from Arkansas, 
Missouri, Iowa, and other States close to the Kan- 
sas wheat belt come to the harvest each year. 
They represent the backbone of the Kansas har- 
vest force. 
that 38.4 per cent of the group were 
under 25 years of age. A good many 
of these were earning money to com- 
plete their education. pe ES cos a a a southern Kansas 
The contrast shown by Table 4 hand tound in tee pine, finest, types of harvest 
between the skilled workmen, me- 
chanics, miners, railroad men, and skilled factory hands on the one 
hand, and the farmers and laborers on the other, in the matter of 
education, is interesting. More than 25 per cent (25.6 per cent) of 
the skilled workmen had attended high school and 7.3 per cent had 
attended trade schools or night schools. Only 15.1 per cent of the 
farmers and 17.5 per cent of the laborers had attended high school 
and but very few had attended technical schools. Only 19.8 per 
cent of the skilled workmen had failed to complete the eighth grade, 
as compared with 36.7 per cent of the farmers and farm hands and ¢ 
41.7 per cent of the laborers. 
* Bulletin 1020, U. S. Dept. of Agr., p. 18. 
