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Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-286
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Text: AVERAGE HOURLY CASH WAGES PAID ON COTTON FARMS IN THE COTTON BELT, 1945 36 �

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-287
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Text: / 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. �

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-285
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Text: 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-274
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Text: 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-282
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Text: 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). �

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-281
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Text: .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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-261
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Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-262
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Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-314
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Text: - 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

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-315
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Text: Dairy only March 18-24 1.62 1.16 .46 — 54 59 3/ May 20-26 1.59 1.43 .13 *• 63 64 3/ September 16-22 2.19 1.14 1.04 56 50 66 33 Dairy-Poultry March 18-24 1.32 1.18 .12 — 63 66 3/ May 20-26 1.23 .85 .22 ■ — 58 66 3/ September 16-22 1,71 .66 1.04 49 34 61 16 Poultry March 18-24 1.14 .90 .16 — 42 46 May 20—26 1.18 .60 .45 — 50 62 3/ September 16-22 1.31 .75 .43 40 48 61 25 Cattle March 18-24 1,67 1.35 .32

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-307
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Text: Eastern part of region ,27 2.85 18.20 67 10.3 6.4 Western part of region .18 2.15 13.50 73 11.5 6.3 May 20-26 Eastern part of region .28 2.85 18.40 65 10.1 6.5 Western part of region •21 2.40 15.40 73 11.4 6.4 September 16-22 Eastern part of region .31 3.25 15.70 50 10.4 4.8 Western part of region .28 3.20 19.30 68 11.2 6.1 1/ Excludes custom workers. Estimates based on data from enume native sanple

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-308
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Text: :workers ; noncrew : Percent Dollars Dollars Humber Percent Percent Pe rceu March 18-24, all work 100 .25 2.70 6.1 81 2/19 Land preparation 17 .22 2.45 6.4 85 10 5 Plowing 10 .24 2.55 6.5 85 7 8 Other land preparation 7 .19 2.30 6.2 85 15 — Dairy work 40 .21 2.30 6.6 90 g 2 General farm work (non- dairy fams) 6 .27 2.65 6.5 89 11 — Care of poultry 1 .40 3.40 4.9 71 29 — May 20-26, all work 100 .27 2.85 6.2

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-309
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Text: '■leek with meals 2/ 13.80 14.20 .14.30 WeeK without meals 2/ 24.10 28.40 28.80 Eastern part of region Month with meals 2/ 58.70 61.00 65.90 Month without meals 3/ 94.20 100.60 101.00 Week with meals 2/ 15.30 15*40 16.70 Week without meals 3/ 24.10 28.20 28.40 Western part of' region Month with meals 2/ 54.90 59.00 59.60 Month without meals 3/ 99.00 99.70 100.40 1/ Excludes custom rates. 2

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-310
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Text: and Self-Sufficing Region hired any workers during 1945, and they averaged less than 5 man-months of hired labor (table 43)• How- evei1, because about a fifth of the farms in the country are in this region--, the total of the man-days of hired labor used during the year was greater than in the Range—Livestock or Lheat Regions, and was nearly as great as in the Corn Belt. Only a sixth of the farmers

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-306
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Text: .25 2.70 16.60 66 10.7 6.1 May 20—26 .27 2.85 17.60 64 10.4 6.2 September 16-22 .35 3.60 18.70 53 10.3 5.2 Dairy farms, total March 18-24 .21 2.35 15.10 71 11.1 6.4 May 20-26 .23 . 2.55 16.40 71 10.9 6.5 September 16-22 .29 3.20 17.9P 61 10.9 5.6 Dairy only March 18—24 .27 2.80 19.00 71 10.5 6.7 May 20-26 .28 2.95 19.20 67 10.3 6.5 September 16-22 .30 3.10 18.00 59 10.2 5.8 Dairy—poultry March 18-24

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-305
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Text: .52 — 67 71 56 September 16-22 1.80 1.09 .65 71 59 70 41 Dairy—poultry March 18—24 1.31 1.10 .21 — 65 72 33 May 20-26 1.24 1.09 .14 •* 71 74 September 16-22 1.29 .88 .40 73 68 74 48 Dairy-other livestock March 18-24 1.29 1.12 .15 — 73 79 3/ May 20-26 1.24 1.10 .12 73 77 3/ September 16-22 1.40 1.06 .33 79 66 78 26 Dairy-crop March 18-24 1.36 1.22 .13 — 74 77 3/ May 20-26 1.27 1.14 .12 — 69 73 3

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-313
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Text: __ 1945 _ :_in 1945 ____ Percent Percent Number Percent Number General and Self-Sufficing Region, all farms 100 100 44 37 116 Dairy farms, total 15 31 90 47 191 Dairy only 4 9 98 40 Dairy-poultry 6 8 54 42 126 Poultry 7 5 29 36 81 Gattie 8 19 100 57 175 Tobacco 10 5 20 42 48 Truck 3 3 40 43 89 Potato 6 8 62 50 124 Hay 4 3 37 50 72 Other 47 26 24 26 90 1/ No classification ’’general farm” has been set up

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-304
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Text: .85 70 Dairy—poultry farms 100 1.79 .99 .53 .27 15 No hired labor 53 1.56 .97 .59 — — 13-49 crop acres 17 1.35 .96 .39 — — 50 crop.acres cr more 31 1.70 .98 .72 — — 1-74 man-days 23 1.72 1.00 .48 .24 14 75-374 man-days 21 2.25 1.00 .46 .79 35 375 or more man-days 3 2.93 .92 .40 1.61 55 Dairy—other livestock fams 100 1.88 .99 .49 .40 21 No hired labor 44 1.61 1.00 .61 — — 13-49 crop acres a 1.44 1.00

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-311
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Text: Table 41•-The estimated annual wage cost of a day of hired farm work, by type of farm, for the General and Self-Sufficing Region, 1945 1/ Annual average : Percent of Type of farm ; wage cost : region’s „ _____ _____ _____ ____ ____ Per_day_____ :_ vzage bill ___ Dqllars Percent General and Self-Sufficing Region, 2.55 100 farms Dairy farms, total 2.50 31 Dairy only 2.65 9 Dairy-poultry 2.15 7

Title: WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-312
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Text: - 62 - the year in the General and Self-Sufficing Region. Only about 40 percent of then used any hired labor during the year, and they aver aged only about two man-months. A large part of this was seasonal labor hired to transplant tobacco and, in the late surlier, to cut and house the tobacco. The survey made the third week in September probably caught the end of the tobacco harvest only in some areas. Images paid by tobacco farmers were about 25 cents ah hour in September, about the.same as in March and May (table 46). This was a little below the regional average hourly wage. Tobacco farmers in this region probably operated smaller farm enterprises than farmers in the tobacco sub-areas of the more commercial type-of-farming regions. Dairy, cattle and tobacco farmers made up only a third of the farmers in this region. The few truck farmers use a little less labor than the cattle farmers. The farmers primarily raising poultry, potatoes or hay used even less. The farmers classified as operating "other” types of farms made up nearly half of the farmers in the region and used very small amounts of hired labor. The majority of these farmers produced primarily for home use. Three-fourths of the "other” group did not hire any farm work done during the year. Many of those who used hired labor were corn farmers, and a few were fruit farmers. The cash wages paid for farm work in this region did not vary much from one type of farm to another or with the type of farm work done except for the fall harvest. Of the major types of work sur veyed in September, only workers baling hay and picking apples were paid higher than average wages for the region. About 80 percent of the workers doing these jobs were seasonal workers. Many of the apple pickers were crew workers. This was the only type of farm work surveyed in this region for which a large proportion of the workers were employed in crews. �

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