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WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-141
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- 67 - Table 72.-Michigan Sugar Beet Harvesters: Distribution pf farms surveyed and workers,by size'of enterprise, major producing area, Michigan, week ended October 27, 1945 1/ Total Acres of sugar Farms _ _ workers _: number beets in 1945 Number • : Percent- Number :_ Percent : per farm Total - all farms 82 100 530 100 6.5 Under 10 acres 21 26 126 24 6.0 10 - 19 acres 32 39 186 35 5.8 20
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-153
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• • day : week : week Number Dollars Dollars Dollars Number Number Number Tomatoes Total - all operations 1/ 372 .58 5.00 20.40 8.6 4.1 35 Picking 361 .59 5.00 20.30 8.5 4.1 34 Receiving house ' or lodging 121 .55 4.90 23.50 8.9 4.8 42 Not receiving house or lodging 240 .61 5.10 18.70 8.2 3.7 30 Other operations 2/ 11 .38 3.80 21.50 9.8 5.7 56 Peaches Total - all operations 51 .54 5.00 30.60 9.3 6.1
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-154
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Bushel 1.1 6.5 6.0 Males 18—44 years 116 1.08 Bushel .9 5.3 5.9 Other males 89 1.09 Bushel 1.0 6.2 6.1 Females 51 1.14 Bushel .8 4.4 5.9 Picking 24 1.22 Bushel .6 3.7 6.2 1/ Detailed information on wage rates and performance was not available for: 7 workers paid by time rates other than those mentioned; 121 workers by race; and 330 workers by age and sex. 2/ Some of the workers were paid by other size
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-143
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206 .51 3.80 5.00 7.5 1.3 10 Prisoners 185 .49 3.40 3.40 6.9 1.0 7 Local 21 .54 4.70 18.00 8.7 4.0 35 Receiving house or lodging 113 .53 3.90 14.80 7.3 3.8 28 Not receiving house or lodging 394 .54 4.10 9.90 7.6 2.4 18 Harvesting - all oper- ations 2/ 502 .54 4.00 10.80 7.4 2.7 20 Pulling and topping 484 .54 4.00 10.90 7.4 2.7 20 Custom workers 18 2.83 17.00 56.50 6.0 3.3 20 1/ Area includes Saginaw
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-144
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118 16.14 35.7 .028 .20 10 - 19 acres 170 17.22 31.2 .032 .24 20 - 29 acres 88 17.34 33.8 .030 .22 30 acres and over 108 18.51 31.4 .032 .23 1^ Area includes Saginaw, Bay, and Tuscola Counties. 2/ Excluding 41 workers who we-e trucking, or paid at a monthly rate, and 5 workers for whom detailed information was not available. �
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-151
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100.0 810 100.0 5.7 Under 90 acres 53 37.6 216 26.7 4.1 90 - 159 acres 58 41.1 207 36.7 5.1 160 - 229 acres 20 14.2 151 18.6 7.6 230 acres and over 10 7.1 146 18.0 14.6 �
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-152
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• ♦ • • Hours: Days : Hours farms : in : Hourly: Daily : Ueekly: per : per : per :survey : : • • day : week : week Number Dollars Dollars Dollars ;Number Number Number Total - all farms 810 •52 4.50 22.40 8.7 4.9 43 Under 90 acres 216 .54 4.40 18.60 8.3 4.2 35 90-159 acres 297 .50 4.40 19.70 8.8 4.5 39 .160 - 229 acres 151 •52 4.40 25.80 8.5 5.8 50 .230 acres and over 146 •53 4.90 29.80 9.1 6.1 56 �
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-79
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WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-85
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the product ready for shipping on the same day. In none of the harvests was the average work-day as long as 10 hours. The "daylight to. dark" work-day is no longer a general practice among harvesters of fruits and vegetables on commercial farms* Only in the case of cherry pickers in Washington did daily wages of any group of harvesters surveyed in the 13 States average as much as $10 a day
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-86
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-12 _ With the exception of those covered by a few surveys, the workers in the various harvests in sizable proportions were provided transportation to and from work without charge by the farm operator. Of the harvests for which information on transportation was obtained, in 14 cases 50 percent or more of the workers were given transportation, in 13 cases between 20 and 50 percent, and in 7 cases
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-87
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Hop 32-37 North Carolina Strawberry 105-108 Colorado Potato 38-41 Potato (WFA camps) 109-111 Sugar beet 42-47 Potato 112-115 Wisconsin Cranberry 48-51 Peach 116-119 Potato 52-56 Louisiana Michigan Sugarcane 120-125 Peach 57-60 Texas Onion 61-66 Vegetable and fruit 126-128 Potato 67-71 Arizona Sugar beet 72-77 ■Cotton 129-132 Maine Potato 78-82 �
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-88
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- 14 - Table l.-Sex and race or nationality of workers harvesting special crops, selected areas of 13 States CO CO CO co CD CO 4^ 0) 4O •H 0 0) •H 0) CO •ri CO CD co co 0 co 2 co CD X* Sn 0) CO CD CD to CD CD h co O CD o CD CO O O Ct JO O 0 (D P k X> 43 Ct 43 4*> k £ 43 JO x: Ct Ct c Ct O o Ct Ct Ct ct ct ct C o p hC Ct 4-3 Ct •ri 4D txo •p cu k £ ct Ct O 2 o a? 0 p 0 co 40 0 Jh 0 Ph CO o
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-77
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- 3 - Wenatchee Valley in Chelan County was also included in the cherry and apple surveys. The hop harvest was covered in two counties in the Willamette Valley of Oregon in September 1945* An earlier survey of the wages of strawberry pickers in Western Oregon made in June, included growers in parts of four counties in the same general area* Moving eastward, the sequence next includes surveys
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-78
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3 tn DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE NEG. 46185 BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS �
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-84
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. Within the same State, there were also large differences in the average hourly and daily wages earned by workers in the harvests of different crops. New Jersey cranberry, harvesters, with 98 percent of the workers 18 years old or over, averaged #1.13 per hour in cash wages, whereas peach and tomato harvesters in the same State averaged between 55 and 60 cents an hour. In North Carolina, potato
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-83
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as much or more by average performance as by difference in rates. Strawberry pickers in New Jersey had the highest average output per worker—16.2 quarts per hour, compared with 8.7 and 6.6 quarts for Oregon and North Carolina. The differences in performance are partly accounted for by the fact that children and youths under 18 years of age were not so prevalent as strawberry pickers in New Jersey
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-82
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in selected weeks of 1945 were 8.4 cents in Michigan, 6.9 cents in North Carolina, and 6.0 cents in Wisconsin.. Converted bushel equivalent rates from the piece rates reported for Colorado and Maine were 13.0 cents and 6.8 cents respectively. Higher average rates were paid in Weld County, Colorado, than in other areas surveyed. This was at least partly because the potato and sugar beet harvests in the area
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-81
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-7 - Through 1945 and the early part of 1946, prisoners of war were used on farms in the United States. They were found in considerable numbers in some of the special-crop harvests surveyed in Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Arizona. The prisoners of war were more often found on farms which had relatively large-scale operations. In each survey in which prisoners of war
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-80
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- 6 - Workers Employed in Special-Crop Harvests These 34 surveys obtained information from farmers on approximately 26,000 workers whom they had employed during a specified week of the harvest (table 1). In areas where surveys were repeated for a later harvest of a second or third crop, some of the workers were reported a second or third time, so the total includes some duplication. Also
WagesInAgriculture1946-47.pdf-8
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- 6 - 2. COMPOSITION OF HIRED FARMWORKERS, SEPTS EHR 16-22, 1945 More Than Three-Fourth's of Workers in Fall Are Seasonal 'formers.-In September, 80 percent of the 3,240,000 hired farm workers’ were to be employed less than 6 months during the year by the reporting farmer. This is a much larger percentage of seasonal hired workers than was found in the spring. In Hay, 62 percent

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