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Show FARM LABOR SHORTAGE. The labor difficulty, unfortunately, is primarily one of supply at any price, and secondarily one of paying wages unprecedented in agricultural work. A newspaper recently made a survey of labor conditions in California Califor-nia and reports as result of its investigation inves-tigation that California will this year produce smaller crops than heretofore hereto-fore and that the outstanding reason is the shortage and high cost of farm labor. Lands that formerly produced, it finds, will lie fallow in some instances. in-stances. In others, lands heretofore used for crops that require heavy labor la-bor are being planted to forage crops that can be handled largely by machinery. ma-chinery. Beet sugar production will suffer severely. Such conditions are not confined to California but are found general throughout the country. |