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Show F11IGE RATES I BREAKJECORDS WAR CONDITIONS ACCELERATE AN ADVANCE IN RURAL LADORER'S WAGE. From 1015 to 1920 Farm Laboror Working by the Month Received ' a Gain In His Salary as High as 115 Per Cent Washington. Wage rates for farm labor reached tholr-highest point In i tho history of tho country ln 1020, as i national averages. As ascertained .by tho bureau of crop estimates, United States department of ngrlculture tho average wage rate for labor hlredby tho month was $40.80 with board, and $01.05 without board; for day labor nt harvest, $3.00 with board, and 51.30 without board. Wnr conditions greatly accelerated nn upward movement of farm wago rates that began nfter 1805. Tho rate of that year for iiirlngs by the mouth without board was S17.00 as an nver-ago nver-ago for the United States, and no Other year In tho record of the bureau, bu-reau, extending back to 1800, had n lower rate,, except 1870, with 510.11 Hy 1002 tills wage rate hnd Increased to $22.11; by ll)M to $20.88. followed by $80.15 in 1015, with no evidence of war effect. This effect appeared, por-linpg, por-linpg, us a small beginning In the next year, 1010. when tho wage rate was Ml! SU. Then followed rapid rlso 'to $10.4:1 In 1017, to $17.07 In 1018. to $50.20 In 1010 and to $01.05 In 1020. Tho rate of gain over 1805 was 70 per cont In 1015, and 207 per cent In 1020, so that the gain of 70 per cent In twenty years, from 1805 to 1015, was followed by n gain of 107 per cent In five years, from 1010 to 1020, or nearly near-ly three times as much In u quarter as many years. Prom 1015 to 1020 farm labor working work-ing by the innnjtli without board received re-ceived n gain In wage rate as high as 115 per cent. This was one of the causes of tho greatly Increased cost of producing things on the farm, which has hit the farmer so hard In the" declining de-clining market for his crops of 1020. So high had tho farm wago rates become be-come in the last two or three years that they wire prnhlhltlvo In. a con-.sldorablo con-.sldorablo degree when labor could ho found, nnd farmers-more generally depended de-pended exclusively on themselves ami members of their families, In addition to extending tho uso of labor-saving I machinery, |