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WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-320
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- 70 - The annual average cost of hired labor per day on cattle ranches ■was lower in 1945 than on the other major types of farms in the region (table 49)• The cattle ranchers hired 19 percent of the labor and paid 16 percent of the region’s wage bill. The hourly cash wages paid by cattle ranchers were the same as the regional average in March (table 52). But in May and September, the wages
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- 25- FARMERS HIRING LABOR.AND DAILY WAGE COST IN 1945 ON VARIOUS TYPES OF FARMS IN THE CORN BELT (FARMS CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO LEADING PRODUCT SOLD IN 1945) FARMERS HIRING­ CASH WAGES PAID PER LABOR IN 1945 DAY, ANNUAL AV., 1945 Each symbol represents 2 percent Each svmhol represents of all farmers in the Corn Belt one dollar SOURCE: SURVEYS OF WAGES AND WAGE RATES IN AGRICULTURE U
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-276
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of higher wages paid for special harvest jobs. However, monthly rates with meals paid on com farms and on hog farms did increase (table 12. Table 12.—Average cash wage rates paid hired fam. -workers on selected types of farms, by selected modes of payment, Com Belt, selected weeks of 1945 1/ Type of farm and s March • ^y : September ____ mode of payment.___________ : 18-24 : 20—26 : 16-22 Dollars Dollars
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® Table 19.—Distribution of cotton farms in the Cotton Belt by tenure of the operator and by man-days of hired labor used in 1945 Man-days of hired labor used : Tenure of farn■onerator in 1945 and part of region J All 5 Tenant :Share- ...^tfarris ’ Owner :cropper Percent Percent. Percent Percent Cotton farms, total 100 28 25 47 No hired labor 63 14 15 34 1-74 man-days 29 10 8 11 75-374 man-days 6 a 2 1
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-284
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labor 63 45 11 4 1 2 1-74 nan-days 29 19 5 2 2 1 75 - 374 nan-days 6 3 1 1/ 1 1 375 or nore nan-days 2 1/ 1 V 1/ 1 Eastern Cotton Belt 100 50 25 10 6 9 Delta 100 84 8 2 1 5 Tiestern Cotton Belt 100 15 25 10 15 35 1/ Less than 0#5 percent# Estimates based on data from enumerative sample survey of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics# In the older part of the Cotton Belt in the East, much of the land
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-250
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as follows: Glen T. Barton, Emerson M. Brooks, Charles F. Cannell, Charles A. Gibbons, Margaret Jarman Hagood, Roger F. Hale, Earl E. Houseman, Barbara B. Reagan. The State Agricultural Statisticians cooperated in the field operations of the survey. The surveys include collection of information on wages and wage rates of all workers hired on a national sample of 20,000 farms during specified weeks
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the Appendix. 1/ See1 the Appendix for a discussion of the coverage- of the surveys and the reliability of estimates. 2/ "Reports Numbers 4, 7 and 16 in the series, Surveys of Wages and aage fetes in Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics} other reports now available from the series are listed at the end of this report. �
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Percent Northeast Dairy 1.40 2.55 3.95 88 Poultry .91 3.10 4.00 62 Truck .41 4.35 4.75 40 Potato .88 6.15 7.05 54 North Central Dairy 1.51 2.30 3.80 98 Com 1.00 4.05 5.05 78 ’’/heat 3/ 1.54 3.50 5.05 100 Cattle 1.13 ‘3.15 4.30 75 Hog 1.31 2.65 3.95 96 South Cotton .48 2.25 2.75 74 Tobacco .21 2.25 2.45 24 Corn — other crop .50 2.50 3.00 63 ’Theat 3/ .76 3.65 4.40 75 West Dairy .66 5.70 6.35 54 Fruit .31
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-279
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.80 66 49 71 23 Hog March 18-24 1.14 .82 .25 53 61 3/ May 20-26 1.31 .87 .36 - 62 70 3/ September 16-22 2.41 .54 1.80 68 40 69 32 Corn-livestock March 18-24 1.61 1.17 .30 48 55 3/ May 20-26 1.12 .72 .40 63 3/ 3/ September 16-22 3.57 .71 2.86 62 41 3/ 33 Corn - other crop March 18-24 1.23 .92 .27 50 58 25 May 20-26 1.21 .69 .48 . - 60 69 46 September 16-22 1.45 .81 .61 58 46 61 23 YJheat 4/ May 20
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-280
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.33 3.20 17.50 54 9.8 5.5 May 20-26 .33 3.55 18.70 57 10.7 5.3 September 16-22 .65 5.60 27.90 43 8.6 5.0 Dairy March 18-24 .23 2.35 12.50 54 10.1 5.3 May 20-26 .24 2.60 15.80 65 10.9 6.0 September 16-22 .31 3.15 16.80 55 10.4 5.3 Cattle March 18-24 .33 3.20 18.40 57 9.9 5.8 May 20—26 .31 3.35 I808O 60 10.8 5.6 September 16-22 .35 3.80 17.20 49 10.8 4.5 Hog March 18-24 .26 2.55 14.00 53 9.8 5.5 May
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-286
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AVERAGE HOURLY CASH WAGES PAID ON COTTON FARMS IN THE COTTON BELT, 1945 36 �
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-287
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/ Since workers can snap so much 17/ ’Yorkers furnishing trucks have been considered as custom workers, and their wages, which cover the use of the truck as well as their labor, have not been included in the wages shown in this report. 18/ The average rate for snapping or pulling cotton in the Western Cotton Belt was adjusted from $1.31 per 100 pounds to $1.77, and then averaged with picking rates there. �
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advantage for farmers in the Western Cotton Belt is that dry weather tends to hold the boll weevil in check. Boll weevils first entered South Texas from Mexico in 1892. By 1922 they had infested the entire Cotton Belt. 16/ This speeded up the movement of cotton production into the Southwest and stimulated diver­ sified farming throughout the Belt. The climate of the region is well suited for many crops
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-274
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the year. About half of all the farmers in the region used some hired labor during 1945, but they averaged only about half a man year. This was true for nearly all of the major types of farms in the region. Corn Belt farmers used lesc hired labor per farm during the year than farmers in any other commercial production region. Only corn or hog enterprises that sold over 4'20,000 worth of products
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laborers on their landlords’ units are excluded from data given in this paragraph# Perquisites Furnished Hired Farm workers, United States and Major Regions, 1945, Report No# 18 of the series, Surveys of Uages and Lage Rates in Agriculture, Bur# Agr# Econ©,December 1946, (processed). �
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-281
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.4 59 39 2 Planting corn 33 .34 3.85 5.9 70 30 Other planting 10 .42 3.90 3.9 21 69 10 General farm work 5 .24 2.75 5.9 78 22 — September 16-22^ all work 100 •65 5.60 5.0 33 2/ 67 Total harvest 60 .98 7.00 4.7 11 15 74 Cutting hay 3/ 3 .30 3.25 5.2 64 36 Baling hay 3 .43 4.05 3.4 33 67 Other harvest work 54 1.07 7.35 4.7 7 12 81 Operating hnsilage cutter. filling silo 9 .33 3.85 5.1 62 38 Preparation
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- 64 - to CM *d P p to Table 44, -Hired employment per farm, selected weeks of 1945, and to ta l employment per farm, September 16-22 CM O r •H 0) P 0) XI 1 • -p ^ CD Pi R 0) to 'd ^4 p o 's •H rd CD. CD 0) cd •H O ft Pi Ci CMi £ • § § Q § CD Ph g Estimates based on data from enumerative sample surveys of the Bureau of A gricultural Economics CD CO 0) P to O bl cd I -P CD P ■cd 1 P • Ch

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