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Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-258
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Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-335
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Text: 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-336
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Text: .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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-339
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Text: 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-340
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Text: : 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-344
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Text: : 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-345
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Text: 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-337
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Text: 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-338
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Text: 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-333
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Text: 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

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. �

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