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Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-316
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Text: —poultry March 18-24 .21 2.10 13.00 63 10.1 6.2 May 20-26 .19 1.85 10.80 58 10.0 5.8 September 16-22 .25 2.35 8.60 34 9.4 3.6 Poultry March 18-24 .22 1.80 9.30 42 8.2 5.2 May 20-26 .23 2.10 11.30 50 9.2 5.4 September 16-22 .28 2.55 13.50 48 9.1 ■ 5.3 Cattle March 18-24 .20 1,90 10.10 51 9.5 5.3 May 20-26 ...26 2.40 9.30 36 9.2 3.9 September 16-22 .31 2.80 12.90, 42 9.1 4.6 Tobacco March 18-24 .26 2.15. 7.80 30

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-317
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Text: work (nondairy farm) 12 <>23 2.00 4.5 63 37 May 20-26, all work 100 .27 2.55 4.5 55 2/ 45 Land preparation 18 .25 2.45 4.8 55 43 2 Plowing 12 .23 2.25 4.6 51 49 Other land preparation 6 .28 2.80 5.2 64 31 5 Planting 38 .24 2.30 4.4 49 51 — Cultivating 13 .24 2.20 3.9 49 51 — Dairy work 5 .28 2.55 6.5 94 6 — Sept. 16-22, all T/ork 100 .31 2.90 4.3 39 2/' 61 Harvest 54 .32 2.95 4.0 31 60 9

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-325
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Text: /-61 Planting 4 .48 4«95 6.3 54 26 20 Cultivating 36 .46 4.45 5.3 21 46 33 Chopping cotton 1.0 =35 3.45 5«0 20 57 23 Thinning sugar beets 14 .50 4=85 5.0 10 48 42 Other cultivating 12 .49 4=75 5.9 35 34 31 General ranch work and care of livestock 4 .37 3-45 6.6 85 15 Sheep herder, shearer 21 .63 6.25 5<4 26 25 49 September 16-22, all work: 100 .51 4-70 5-1 37 2/ 63 Harvest 62 .54 4-85 4=7 16 30 54 Picking

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-326
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Text: ranch work 103.00 Sheep herder 123.30 May 20-26 Chopping cotton 3.50 General ranch work 97.50 Sheep herder, shearer 144.80 ,5.95 September 16-22 General ranch work 128.00 Sheep herder 136.70 1/ Excludes custom rates. 2/ Two or more regular meals per day. 3/ Includes some workers receiving one meal per day. Estimates based on data from enumerative sample surveys of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-323
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Text: :Seasonal Total 1/ ‘Regular’Seasonal’ :workers 2/: • ♦ • • • Number Number Number Number . Number Number Number Range-livestock Region, all farms March 18-24 2.24 1.43 .72 — 52 59 34 May 20-26 3.37 1.19 1.89 — 54 62 49 September 16-22 3.46 1.18 2.05 53 48 61 38 Cattle March 18-24 2.01 1.50 .52 — 53 61 3/ May 20-26 2.34 1.58 • 65 — 64 65 59 September 16-22 1.95 1.57 .36 66 64 69 2/ Hay May 20-26 3.10 1.52 1.58

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-324
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Text: farms March 18-24 .42 3^90 22.00 52 9.3 5.7 May 20-26 .48 4.55 25.60 54 9.6 5.6 September 16—22 .51 4.70 24.20 48 9-3 5.1 Cattle March 18-24 .42 3.80 22.10 53 9.1 5.8 May 20-26 .36 3.55 23.00 64 9.9 6.4 September 16-22 .37 3.80 24.00 64 10,2 6.3 Hay March 18-24 .40 3.75 16.40 41 9.4 4c4 May 20-26 .39 3.80 21.60 55 9.8 5.7 September 16-22 .49 4.60 25.60 53 9.5 5.5 Sugar beet May 20-26 .50 4.80 24.30 49

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-321
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Text: an hour, which meant a little less than $4-50 a day. Workers were usually hired at monthly rates except at shearing time when d'qily rates were also paid. 25/ Kages~and~Kage Rates of Harvostcj^jxf_J_peo^LJli22s_inJ^lectec^^ $^LiLhLtate^JI945i__JLiL^ Our. Agr. Econ., Surveys pf Kages and Kage Rates in Agriculture, Report No. 16, August 1946, pp. 46-50, (Processed). 2£/ I^id., page 45 * �

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-329
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Text: - 79 ~ On the other hand;, many farms in these specialty areafs, especially in Idaho and Utah, are operated primarily by family labor. About a fourth of the farmers in the region did not hire any labor in 1945- Some of these farmers were producing primarily for home use, while others had small specialty farms — poultry, fruit, or dairy. Two was the average number of all workers on dairy, poultry

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-322
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Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-320
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Text: - 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-275
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Text: - 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-276
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Text: 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-283
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Text: ® 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-284
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Text: 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-250
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Text: 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-251
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Text: 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. �

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-265
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Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-266
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Text: 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-279
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Text: .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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-280
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Text: .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

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