Show U S itinerant workers replace farm hands there is a new vanishing american he is the hired man on the nations farms the alabama state extension service reports that more than a million workers move from farm to farm and state to state following the crops they have virtually supplanted the hired man of old throughout the nation first these nomads of the soil converge on florida for the new harvest season where they remain until late spring they follow the harvest up the atlantic coast gathering crops in georgia south carolina virginia maryland delaware new jersey and new york they start the southward trek again in the fall others leave florida in the spring to pursue the harvest up the mississippi valley they work on crops along the gulf to louisiana in arkansas kentucky and tennessee missouri illinois and ohio michigan and along the edge of lake erie other groups of wandering farm workers are found similarly follow ing the harvest seasons on the west coast working northward toward i canada then returning southward |