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Show PROBLEM OF FARM LABLl Wages and Houra of Work Coil With Those of City Cousins rJ by University Expert. I "Few things could be more tive than the inference drawn by farm laborers on comparing wages and hours of work with of their city cousins," says O. R. son of the University of Missoui lege of agriculture, after a very ful study of the farm labor p..-in p..-in one Missouri county and a g review of the situation in the st? a whole. He finds that the i-Missouri i-Missouri farm laborer wor, 9.64 hours a day for 12.8 i, hour in money, and bpard. When employed, by the moi farm hand receives an average with, or $29 without board, ii harvest time, he may be temp employed at an average of abou a day with board or $2 a day f board. The average wages a df ing other seasons is from $; $1.40. These wages may not very high as compared with f;; to 30 cents an hour in the cfi this is where the fallacy of cot-t such Incomes begins to apper. city laborer is probably morff-to morff-to find himself out of work : any fault of his own and will;:;;: ly have to spend much more f c-room, c-room, and practically every otVi-of otVi-of expense, to say nothing:::;:; greater temptation to spenc.--foolishly. It has been estimated th? the last twenty years wages:;; creased 23 per cent In the f;; turing industries and 36 pej farms, indicating that the farm laborer is improving mp " ly; although, of course, su;-' tell us nothing about his ;;;:;; compared with that of his c,:': either now or twenty years .. . Perhaps one of the gn vVh prises to be found in Mr. ant) figures centers about the le Kul work day on the farm. (Fi! dustries there has been a (Bl for a reduction to a ten-hoi to an eight-hour day. but t 10win farm laborer already en. letin tages in this particular p "heal equivalent to those his tatel would enjoy under an ei tb c rangement. It is true that derr working day, as deter; careful records kept on 2 resenting all sections of f, i 9.64 hours; but during the f November to April is or I hours; and during Mai July it is about 10 ho f v not to be compared witbg lng day of S or 10 hour; fs all time spent In chores f for work, and going to.-g- " " the city worker spends two hours, or even mor j and from work, thus nominal working day ; jn which is usually not 0 making comparisons oity I the working days in c f ires S It is difficult to citeui. f Indicating the value carm p, ness and variety of wenta f or the readier access an,j and social pleasures 0 Mr. Johnson does not0 tne clde this matter, butjnt 0f fc-'v individual preference the worker. |
