BULLETINS OF THE ELEVENTH CENSUS. 



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The following table gives the number of acres planted, value of land, 

 number of persons employed, and value of implements used: 



Number of Acres in Truck-farm Crops, by Districts. 



THE LABOE QUESTION. 



This is an important question to the truck farmer, labor not being 

 employed throughout the year. Except in a very few instances transient 

 help must be used very largely, especially in gathering the crop, and on 

 this account, in connection with the advantages of better shipping facil- 

 ities, the southern truck farmer locates in close proximity to large cities 

 and towns, to which the negroes of the south, especially the younger ones, 

 generally drift. In the truck section about Norfolk, Virginia, there are 

 employed 6,000 men and boys throughout the year, and for six weeks in 

 the height of the shipping season 22,489 men, women, boys, and girls are 

 kept at work, some coming from Richmond and other interior cities of the 

 state and some from North Carolina. While many of them work by the 

 day or week, much of the truck is gathered by piece work; so much per 

 row, dozen, bushel, box, or barrel. 



On every truck farm of any considerable size some men are employed 

 throughout the year who are more or less experts as propagators, culti- 

 vators, or packers. These men are paid from $300 to $600 per year and 

 board at the north and west and on the Pacific coast, and about $100 more 

 where a house is furnished them and they board themselves. 



The following table shows the number of men, women, and children 

 employed in each trucking district: 



