Show WAGES F OR DR FARM LABOR farm fann wages advanced slightly during the past year in the principal grain states and remained stationary or declined slightly in tho the cotton states the higher grain prices and lower cotton prices influenced such changes during the past year there was less scarcity of farm labor than during a number of preceding years for the entire united states wages per day of male farm labor increased about 1 cent during the past year and averaged about without board and with board for labor hired by the month the rate without board increased during the year 27 cents to as compared with 2988 last year rates with board which is the I 1 more general method of hiring increased from 2105 to 2126 an increase of 21 cents wages have been tending upward almott steadily since 1894 the increase in the past five years is about 10 per cent and in the past 20 years about 65 per cent farm wages vary widel widely y in different sections of the united states thus wages per month with board averaged 2371 in the new england states 2478 in the east north central states 2738 in the west north central states in the far Wes western terii states 1501 in the south atlantic State sand and 1616 6 in the south central states tates generally speaking the wages tend to increase iw ingoing gling from east to west and in going from south to north |