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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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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
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-336
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.40 32.20 52 8.6 6.0 May 20-26 .63 5.15 30.00 48 8.2 5.8 September 16-22 .53 4.60 22.10 41 8.6 4.8 Fruit March 18-24 .83 7.20 31.20 38 8.7 4.3 May 20-26 .76 7.00 38.60 51 9.2 5.5 September 16—22 .80 7.60 43.60 55 9.6 5.7 Truck March 18-24 .68 5.30 21.20 31 7.8 4.0 May 20—26 .68 6.10 27.80 41 8.9 4.6 September 16-22 .89 7.75 39.60 45 8.7 5.1 Potato March 18-24 .66 6,60 36.90 56 10.1 5.6 May 20—26 .83 7
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-339
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except the Range-livestock Region. Of the wheat farms, less than a fifth were under 260 acres in 1945> and nearly half were over 500 acres (table 65). Even of this latter group, about a fourth used no hired labor in 1945 and less than a tenth hired more than one and one-half man-years of labor in 1945. Farmers who used hired labor during the year and who had a value of products in 1944 of from $10,000
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-340
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: labor :hired labor :in 1945 :in 1945 : in 1945 ; in 1945 Percent: Percent Number Percent Number Y<heat Region, all fams 100 100 103 64 158 YVheat 1/ 74 53 73 70 105 Fruit 3 23 964 84 1,124 Other 23 24 110 44 235 17Includes a few farms with grain other than wheat or- corn as the principal product. Estimates based on data from enumerative sample survey of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-344
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: workers 2/: Regular:See isonal Number Number Number Number Number Number Number YJheat Region, all farms March 18-24 1.53 1.19 .27 53 54 52 ’ May 20-26 1.79 -97 .78 57 66 48 September 16-22 2.35 .66 1.64 59 52 61 48 Eheat 3/ March 18-24 1.21 .84 .23 58 57 4/ May 20-26 1>22 .82 • 37 63 68 54 September 16-22 1.36 .52 .77 63 52 62 44 Fruit September 16-22 14.67 1-95 12.71 43 53 59 52 1/ Includes custom
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-345
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seed ■; potatoes 9 .62 5.55 4.9 2 98 - Other planting 20 .35 4.05 5.9 79 21 Pre-harvest 21 .77 7.35 5.6 46 15 39 Spraying fruit 10 .75 6.95 5.9 34 6 60 Pruning fruit t:rees 6 .77 7.50 4.8 62 38 - Other pre-harve;st 5 .81 8.15 6.1 48 4 48 September 16-22, ell work 100 .69 6.95 5;2 29 2/ 71 Harvest 65 .72 7.30 5.1 20 46 34 Threshing 12 ;52 5.75 4.9 26 74 Picking apples 25 .93. 9.05 5.3 12 21 67 Other
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-337
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14 .85 7.15 4.7 15 13 72 Picking potatoes 5 qq 7.65 5.2 — 2 98 Other picking 4 .93 7.35 2.7 4 96 Other harvest 5 .71 , 6.60 5.9 44 34 22 Dairy work 3 .70 5.80 6.4 89 11 — Care of livestock and ranch woik 1 .70 6.40 6.2 50 8 42 General farm work 2 .69 6.10 5.8 64 36 — September 16-22, all work 100 .76 7.20 5.5 14 2/ 86 Irrigating 2 .76 7.10 5.8 58 42 — Harvest 67 .78 7.35 5.4 5 14 81 Picking
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-338
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Pruning grapes .70 Other pruning .88 Dairy work 176.80 May 20—26 Chopping cotton .76 Thinning, weeding other crops .67 Pruning fruit trees .84 Pruning grapes .71 Spraying fruit .80 Irrigating 158.40 .78 Dairy work 193.40 September 16-22 Irrigating .82 Picking grapes .83 Grading, packing grapes .70 Dairy work 192.10 1/ Excludes custom rates. 2/ Includes some workers receiving one meal per day. Estimates
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-333
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in the Los Angeles Milkshed, November 1942.11 Bur. Agr. Econ., February 1943, (Processed). 31/ Jamieson, Stuart, Labor Unionism in American Agriculture, U. S. Dept. Labor., Bull. No. 836, 1945, page 155. 32/ See footnote 30- 33/ Lages and Lage Rates of Harvesters of Special Crops in Selected Areas of 13 States, 1945: A Statistical Summary, Report Number 17 of the series, Surveys of Lages and Lage Rates

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