Farm Wages Highest in
History Last Year. . . Department of Agriculture Indicates They Will be Higher
Yet
Farm wages were the highest in the history of the United
States last year, the department of agriculture announces. For labor hired, by
the month with board, the average for the country as a hole was $39.82, without
board was $56.29. Harvest wages per day with board reached the top figure of
$4.48 in the North Central states west of the Mississippi River. The lowest
farm wages are in the South Atlantic states, with the South Central states next
lowest. Monthly wages with board were highest in the western states including
the mountain and Pacific states, where the average was $62.96 while without
board it was $87.12.
Farming operations of 1919 produced crops that had a value
at the farm that was 11.8 per cent. above 1918, and animal products 9.9 per
cent above, but the gain in wages of farm labor was relatively greater. Wages
by the month with board increased 14 per cent, without board 15.3 per cent, and
day wages in harvest, 18.9 per cent.
These figures indicate that the farm laborer is still
regaining the ground he lost, relatively, early in the rapid upward movement of
prices of farm products after 1915. This wage recovery was evident in 1918 as
well as in 1919, but full recovery has not yet been accomplished.
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