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Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-334
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Text: - 84 - CD £ £ 0 co tn 02 co Hired employment per faun, selected weeks of 1945, and to ta l employment per farm, September 16-22 0 02 £ 02 o B £ 0) 0 £ 0 o r o 02 Si P S 02 0 0 data from enumerative sample surveys of the Bureau of A gricultural Economics <H £ 0 £ 0 CO O £ 0 co cO CO 30 co O' £ £ Pi O £ 0 0 £ £ co 0 0 o £ Eh O (V 02 CD £ cO £ 0 0 o 0 £ 0) £ £ O 3 02 £ 0 £ P« CD 210 0 § 1945

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-341
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Text: : as farms rvworkers:Operator:members:workers:percent : : 2/ : S°1 total Percent Number Number Number Number Percent July 14-20, 1946 100 2.59 ^94 .76 .89 34 September 16-22, 1945 100 1.89 .94 .70 .25 13 September 16-22, 1945 No hired labor during year 30 1.84 .96 .88 0 1-74 man-days 46 1.74 .97 .62 .15 9 75-374 man-days 21 2.27 .98 .64 .65 29 375 or more man-days 3 2.96 .93 .67 1.36 46 17 Includes a few

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-342
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Text: general farm work in March averaged $2.90 in the Corn Belt and $3.20 in the Lheat Region. Workers plowing and planting in May were paid an average of about $3-85 in the Corn Belt and about $4-40 a day in the wheat Region. Lheat farmers in May were paying an average of $3.40 a day in the Corn Belt, and $3.80 a day in the Range-livestock Region, but $4.60 a day in the Lheat Region. The relatively high

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-331
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Text: 81 HOURLY CASH WAGES OF HIRED FARM WORKERS DOING SELECTED TYPES OF FARM WORK IN SELECTED AREAS, CALIFORNIA, 1945 Pick peaches Pick peas — .94 Cut asparagus 1.81 .97 - Pick cherries 1.24 — Pick peaches Pick cherries----- Harvest lettuce — .70 Prune and tie grapes Top and load___ .98 — Pick grapes sugar beets 1.18 .84 ------ P‘ck peaches .80 ---------- Pick plums .71 Pick cotton .98 - Pick up

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-332
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Text: - 82 - Table 57.-The estimated annual -wage cost of a day of hired farm work, by type of farm, Western Specialty Crop Areas, 1945 1/ : Annual average Percent of Type of farm : wage cost region's _j___ per day______ wage bill Dollars Percent Western Spec laity Crop Areas, all farms 6.30 100 Dairy 6.10 14 Poultry 5.15 5 Cattle 5.15 3 Fruit 7.40 37 Truck 6.05 6 Potato 7.20 9 Hay 6.15 11 4-90 15

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-330
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Text: - 80 - 74 cents an hour. Monthly rates with meals paid regular workers averaged about $135«OO in 1945 Fruit and potato growers paid an average of over $7.00 a day, the highest wages in the specialty areas in 1945. They were also the heaviest users of hired labor per farm. Potato growers in this region used more hired labor per farm during the year than growers in Aroostook County, Maine. Truck

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-343
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Text: dollars Percent Wheat farms Under $4,000 182 3o 30 600 30 4,000-5,999 200 3.85 770 15 6,000-9,999 269 4.15 1,120 14 10,000-19,999 406 5-25 2,120 14 20,000-50,000 326 6.10 1,980 6 1/ Includes a few farms with grain other t he n vrn cs t or corn as the principal product. Estimates constructed indirectly from data on farmers hiring labor in May 1945’and all farmers hiring labor in 1945 from enumerative

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-292
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Text: £ 0 •H $4 p 0 o 0 Ph Ph P co g bO CD £ £ £ •P CD 0 £ O 0 £ £ 0 O p a* o : ^ £ May 20-26 ____ CO bD £ £ a CO to H \£> rH to O 0 kO 02 tO >t o to ■< co • • • £ £ £ £ 0 0 £ B 02 02 ^ co to 02 Ph £ 0 1945, by type of farm in Cotton Belt 1/ co ’H «h bO CO £: £ £ 01 £ 0 £ CD 0 o o o a: <H «H £f £ o £ 0 E p : £ ch 0 CD bO £ £ £ £ 0 2 0 0 0 «H £ March 18-24 £ •H X £ £ 0 £ O B £ 0 Ph o P CD 0 0 g

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-293
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Text: 16-22 2.95 .95 1.79 36 44 57 38 Cotton farms, total March. 18-24 2.98 1.30 1.64 — 30 37 25 May 20-26 4.46 .78 3.57 — 36 50 33 September 16-22 5.68 .29 5.07 40 34 49 33 Cotton only May 20—26 4.01 .46 3.47 — 34 56 31 September 16-22 4.86 .08 4.66 33 29 3/ 29 Cotton-livestock or dairy March 18-24 3.05 1.30 1.70 *- 35 43 30 May 20-26 5.85 1.44 4.22 37 57 31 September 16-22 10.00 .50 9.23 41 40 3/ 39

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-277
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Text: .35 580 12 6,000 - 9,999 215 3.40 735 9 10,000 -19,999 250 3.45 855 •6 20,000 and over 1,910 4.40 8,140 *• Estimates constructed indirectly from data on farmers hiring labor in May 1945 and all farmers hiring labor in 1945 from enumerative sample surveys of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The average value of products sold was assumed to be the mid-value of the interval shown. �

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-278
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Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-298
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Text: : labor in' : hired labor j in 1945 L in 1945: ___ 1945 ; in 1945 ___ Percent Percent Number Percent Number Dairy Region, all farms 100 100 109 42 251 Dairy farms, total 57 68 128 53 238 Dairy only 10 14 157 50 309 Dairy—poultry 15 13 91 47 192 Dairy—other livestock 22 27 127 56 227 Dairy—crop 10 14 157 61 259 Poultry 5 3 62 26 233 Truck 4 6 167 42 373 Bay 4 1 38 35 107 Other 30 22 82 25 305 Dairy

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-299
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Text: -year of hired labor (table 38). About a fourth of the farmers in the Dairy Region had this high a value of farm products sold in 1944. Dairy farmers with $10,000-19,999 value of sales who hired labor in May aver aged about 2 man-years of hired labor and those with $20,000 or more averaged almost 4 man-years. Most of the dairy farms in both the eastern and western parts of the Dairy Region appear

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-294
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Text: farms March 18-24 .27 2.40 9.90 37 8.8 4.2 May 20-26 .25 2.50 9.30 37 9.9 3.8 September 16-22 .31 2.85 10.50 34 9.2 3.7 Dairy March 18-24 *25 2.20 12.90 51 8.7 5.8 May 20-26 .30 2.50 11.50 38 8.3 4.6 September 16-22 .32 2.55 9.50 30 8.1 3.7 Cattle March 18-24 .27 2.45. 12.80 47 8.9 5.3 May 20-26 .26 . 2.55 10.10 38 9.8 3.9 September 16-22 .36 3.40 16.00 44 9.5 4.7 Cotton farms, total March 18—24 .22 2.00

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-295
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Text: 66 General fam work 5 .27 2.50 4*6 67 33 •m* &y_ 20-26, all work 100 .25 2.50 3.8 26 2/ 74 Land preparation 5 .23 2.25 4.3 52 48 Planting 22 .26 2.65 4.0 14 46 40 Cultivating 54 .21 2.10 3.3 20 51 29 Cotton chopping on cotton farms .^total .24 .21 2.05 2.7 8 60 32 Eastern Cotton Belt' ’15 .20 1.90 2.9 4 78 18 Delta 8 .23 2.25 2.3 17 29 54 Western Cotton Belt 3/ 1 .30 2.95 2.9 — 38 62

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-288
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Text: : labor : labor in 1945 : in 1945 : in 1945 : in 1945_____ Percent Percent Number Percent Number Cotton Belt, all farms 100 100 81 47 170 Dairy 3 3 75 53 139 Cattle 4 6 117 54 212 Cotton farms, total 58 69 96 50 192 Cotton only 18 12 50 36 139 Cotton-livestock or dairy 4 8 170 60 283 Cotton—corn 26 26 82 49 164 Cotton-crops other than corn 10 23 188 71 262 Corn-other crop 7 4 50 43 117 Other 28 18 53 41

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-289
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Text: _: on reporting fam Week and part : hired : : ■ {Hours {Hours { Days of region • farm {Hourly { Daily Weekly { per { per { per ____ __ - {workers:___ :___ {■ week { day { week Percent Dollars Dollars Dollars Number Number Number May 20-26 Eastern Cotton Belt 41 .20 2.00 6.60 33 9*8 3.3 Delta 53 <24 2.55 9.40 38 10.4 3-7 Destern Cotton Belt 6 .30 2.85 11.90 40 9.6 4.2 September 16-22 Eastern Cotton Belt 57

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-296
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Text: Eastern Cotton Belt 1.95 1.85 Delta 2.35 Western Cotton Belt 3.00 Chopping cotton on other farms 2.00 September 16—22 Picking and snapping cotton on cotton farms, total 4/ 5/ 2.15 1.75 Eastern Cotton Belt 5/ 2.15 1.68 Delta 1.87 Western Cotton Belt 4/ 1.84 Picking and snapping cotton on other farms 4/ 1.58 1/ Excludes custom rates. 2/ Two or more regular meals per day. 3/ Includes some workers receiving

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-297
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Text: , 1938. 21/ "Production of Manufactured Dairy Products, 1945 (Preliminary)," Bur. Agr. Econ., Viashington, D. C., July 1946 (Processed). �

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-300
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Text: , by type of farm, Dairy Region, 1945 V : Annual average Percent of Type .of farm : wage cost region's j___ _ per day_______ _ __wage_bill _____ Dollars Percent Dairy Region, all farms 3.05 100 Dairy farms, total 2.65 ■ 59 Dairy only 2.90 14 Dairy—poultry 2.60 11 Dairy—other livestock 2.45 21 Dairy—crop 2.85 13 Poultry 3.65 4 Truck 4.25 9 Hay 2.90 1 Other 3.90 27 17 Excludes wages paid custom workers

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