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Show Foreign Farm Help Jumps in U. S. Though the number of hired people peo-ple doing farm work in the United States in midsummer this year reached a new wartime low, the department of agriculture reports that the number of foreign workers and war prisoners working on farms in the United States In midsummer was about 149,000. The foreign workers come from Mexico, Jamaica, the Bahamas, and Newfoundland. Of the 50,000 Mexicans, Mexi-cans, most were in the West, but around 8,000 were on farms in the Midwest. The number of Jamaicans came to around 16.000, and there were about 5.5C0 Bahamians. While Jamaicans Ja-maicans are working through the whole country, the Bahamians ate in Florida and other truck-growing areas along the Atlantic seaboard. |