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Show MACHINERY COMPETE8 WITH CHEAP LABOR IN MEXICO. In tho Farm and Fireside wo road that in the Mazatlan district of Mexico Mex-ico farm labor can bo hired for from i 15 to 30 cents n day, and tho men board fhcmselvcs. Two of tho largo farms down thero, nccordlng to United Unit-ed States Vice-Consul A. Gordon Brown, use American tractors to ad-vuntngo. ad-vuntngo. ' "This seems to bIiow two thlngR: First, u tractor can ho used profitably profit-ably cen where labor Is cheap; apd, second, It makes tho best of Inefficient labor. 1'ut n tractor In tho hands of n lnuguld Mexican, and as long nn he keeps going ho will do as much work ns the most ardent adocato of tin strenuous llfo. Power machinery thus offsets tho cltmnto hissltudo affecting men and animals, and gives opportunity opport-unity for tillage nearly twelve months in tho year. |