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WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0391
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Kings— 2 Fire- ... :7.’ ;KJ . n m . _fu- ‘1 1 ° 7 L‘. _ _- I‘ _*_ A #1 6 \ -5. f‘ [5, 1 _o fi+ /«P1 1 _ ’_ 1 F‘ /‘ - . tapas . llq_Q .Jeioliaoou. LUn’Q-AQLLLuvd: ourg : oaugh.£ Hours oer day 01 702 - ~31 Ehite, non- ;..e=>:i ca extraction Local Mexican Tcxican national Negrc Prisoners of ca 7.5 9.5 3.0 8.0 — 7.0 ‘J O\ 03 \.O O\ x] O‘ F-‘ I \7 C“\ 3"‘ \j) C?‘ C.‘- 0 C (D C 7: CC! C) I \:&apos
WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0388
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in the saaole, the average yield was 1,350 pounds of seed cotton p*r acre. lho fourth area was located‘in the vicinity of Firebaugh, in restern Fresno County. This is a HOV area of 1: go operations and Ieavy'y1e-d The 12 operators covered in the survey there employed 1,599 workers, 3 everage_of 133 each. Song of these over tors felt they had insufiicient data upon which to estimate their yields
WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0389
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‘.n KN ‘<1 I\) (.13 O J.-‘~ D \J‘( H I-’ E--’ 1 ‘Eyfic::¢f ficlxi Dgfaliatod j . Non—defolihtcd 35v 157 R) C) \.n ',_.' ;_.J O O F-’ 1-3‘ (‘G (.2 (N \V*( -|»¢ uinwsburq :—TIJ .' .r ‘7 'f \ I‘-£Ll::.L)CI‘ Q, ~ Percent 10 Q\m \::) ‘E3 I C‘\\.‘( I S ‘.131 ‘_ C. ]_C ’.l;..2 '7'--'e_ Fqacle 47 43 L.‘ ~52 V L_; ;‘\ 1 z“;f'C 'Unr?.c-r 18 1 5 0 .. .. — /+4 51
WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0392
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in 5 days. To pick only 100 to 150 pounds uer week was common for youngsters l2 to 14 veers old. (J A second set of factors in o tput is yield and other picking conditions, such as size of the stalks, freedom from weeds, tendency of the cotton to be nappy and to stick to the bolls. A third set of factors arise from the weather and state of the season. Cold, wet and foggy weather give rise to short
WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0393
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available nicked an averare of 17.9 pounds an hour. rx Lat .1 . Separate records.were available on l Bone of these TGFO excellent sisters eni hat wighest indiviflua? records of any-workers in the survey. The oliest vi k-r was 77 years ole and several others were over 70. Ste averayesoutert oi the workers over -; Fears or age was 30.2 sounds per hour,maveraging 23 tennis at Ainvsburf and 31.1 at Tipton
WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0396
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: hingsburg P Tat . *1 - J_'u.1I'I11.I'.‘..b _ ._.. _ .. ..- 1 , 8 :Num— :P3r— : Uum—:r;x— I 332- : rer- : .2a— : Per- ‘. .- , , ' \._ ‘ . :ber zcent : Iwf geont ; oer : cont : oer : cent Per hour 100 I-’ C) 1,\ \n ‘J1 1-‘ O O 03 \’) All workers 615 100 71 21 73 Under -.50 68 11 7 10 5.50 — .99 489 so 1 32 fl1.00 and over 58 9 1-’ U1 /\;\ \.JJ ) I\.) \7 IO U‘! K10 M) o~»J U1 U1 \O Per day
WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0397
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. Prisoners of war were transported Tithout charge. it Kingsburg 8 workers were furnished houses, 5 were furnished lodging, and 3 were transported to and from work. At'Firebaugh 624 prisoners of war and 509 other workers'were furnished transportation, 48 workers were furnished houses, 84 were given a house and transportation, and 126 nexican nationals .were given lodging and tra
WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0394
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, non— Lexiean extraction 31 1 Local pexioan 29 5 _ Mexican national 32.5 - — ~ — 32.5 Negro 34 2 Prisoners of war l9 S ?\J I\) C * {E 1.1’ }...J \ ’) (\) All workers g_/ 225 238 Rhite, non- 1-l..e:cican ‘ extraction I\> ( \) F‘) {/3 Z\.) . ‘c\‘ .‘ *~. ‘I L5 ~ - q..- o * "337 Local heiican 229 4; &@+ exicen national 219 — ~ — — 31? Eegro 248 75 228 213 — 3/ Prisoners of war 14? l4? lo? 18
WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0395
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.15 — .3" .30 .64 Mexican national .67 — — — — .67 Negro .77 x77 :79 .<s — 3/ Prisoners of car .44 .’9 .+7 .52 - .46 All workers g/ 5.00 5.30 5.10 4.60 4.30 3/ Xhitc, non- 1; OX]. extraction Local gexican 4 8 5.3e 5.10 4.40 4.20 2/ 5 2 rcxicen national 4.5 5 6 3 3 0 O 4.70 — 6.20 5.30 5.10 O - 4-50 5.60 5.10 4.80 — 3/ 0 3.80 4.10 ~ 3.20 Negro Prisoners of war CDC) ‘L1 0 ..&apos
WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0402
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and Earnings . . . . . . . . ll Perquisites Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 - 20 Method of Survey 20 O \J1J-ԤA)f\)l--' Prepared by Helen M. Clark. Special acknowledgement is made to County Agricultural Agents and others in the Farm Bureau offices of Chautauqua and Erie Counties for their generous assistance with the preliminary work of planning and organizing this survey. Acknowledgement is made
WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0403
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mess mm E mmss or GiiA}'E H;-.RvEsT WORKERS IN CHAU'I‘.»’4.UC3_UA we ma :3 CO[1NTlE3, YORK, TJEEK oc'rcBEu 12., 1945 SUMMARY The survey included a sample of farms in Chautauqua and Erie Counties, New York, on which grapes were harvested for sale during the week ended October 14, l9h5. Average earnings were 59 cents per hour for all hired workers. Because of damage from spring
WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0404
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other race~ source group. Farms with larger vineyards employed relatively more piece workers than did farms with snaller vineyards. The larger vineyards also provided more hours of work and larger weekly earnings on the reporting farm. Average weekly earnings of all sample workers were about $17.30 but many put in less than a full week's work. Piece-workers earned an average of $18.10 and regular
WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0405
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-3- 1. THE l9h5 GRAPE HARVEST SURVEY The grape belt in Chautauqua and Erie Counties is the largest grape producing area in New York State. 0f approximately 30,000 tons of grapes produced in the State in 1945, about l2,000 tons were harvested in Chautauqua and Erie Counties. Spring frost damage reduced the l9h5 grape production to about half an average crop. Although the crop was small, labor
WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0398
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.. '24‘... Consequently it appears that small operators or; under-rcproocnted in the total sanple. On the othsr hcnd, they mny'bo adequately represented in relation to tho.total number of man—hours of harvest labor used. In arriving at performance and earnings data, some of the sohcdulos from Fircbaugh opora+ors and to be discarded because the data appeared unroasonablc. Howsvcr, operators using Loxican nationals and prisoners of var were not affected since tncy were roquired’to kcep regular reports on the output and earnings of-indiviivii workers, and those have bean included in Um mmvmh
WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0399
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WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0400
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WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0401
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WagesInAgriculture1945-46p0401
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do o c o c c u - u u . o o an o u o o : u u o c o - s -v n u o u a o o o o c o u so n o u a - o a - u o c no o ¢ o o o u u o - n o o .- v u u c o o o o o o c n on Surveys of Wages and Wage Rates in Agriculture, Report Number 15 Washington, D.C. July 1946
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-257
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-days of hired labor used during the year per farm was 80 percent higher on farms in the Dairy Region. In terms of value of products per farm in 19.44/ the average-for the Dairy Region was $3,400 compared with $4,800 for the .Corn Belt, (in the Ehiry Region, only 29 percent of the farms'.produced over $4,000 worth of pro­ ducts in 1944, compared with 42 percent in the Corn Belt.) Hie fact that many more
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-258
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WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-335
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49 58 34 May 20-26 1-77 1.37 .40 54 58 3/ September 16-22 1,63 1.20 .37 55 51 59 3/ Cattle March 1.8-24 2.21 1.92 .28 —• 52 53 3/ May 20-26 2-09 .76 1.12 — 48 52 45 September 16-22 2.26 .90 1.13 56 41 56 29 Fruit March 18-24 2.69 1.47 1.13 —• 38 50 22 May 20-26 7-80 .83 6.83 — 50 51 54 September 16-22 16.24 .58 14.59 37 55 54 55 Truck March 18-24 6.11 1.33 4-74 - 31 52 25 May 20-26 4.82 1.39 3

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