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REPORT OF TUE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



Diagram VI presents, in a striking way. the changes of an eventful 

 period of twenty years, first irom the inflated values of the ante-resump- 

 tion i)eriod to the lower wages of the years of commercial and manufact- 

 uring depression, and the subsequent rise from 1S70. The figure repre- 

 sents a depression at that date which appears as a slough of despond 

 into which all sections fell, surely, if not to equal depths. The eastern 

 or manufacturing section suffered a lower fall, because labor was di- 

 verted there from the artisan to the agricultural class, which ultimately 

 suffered nearly as much. 



DAY WAGES IN HARVEST. 



The following exhibit of average day wages in harvest tim'e, with 

 and without board, corresponds in its periodical changes with those in 

 the statement of monthly wages of labor employed by the year: 



