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several cases production is still almost wholly by hand method. 1 In 

 such cases the data are not what they appear to be, a showing of 

 hand method as compared with machine method, but rather only 

 a showing of production by hand method at different dates. 



It will be worth our while to inquire in what way the introduc- 

 tion of machine power has affected the rates of wages for the 

 work of producing these different crops. Turning first to a con- 

 sideration of wages paid in the production of five crops, now 

 largely produced by machine power, we collect the following data : 



An average of averages gives 66 cents for the hand methods 

 and .si. 76 for the machine method an increase of 166 per cent. 



A similar showing for the five crops, in which there appears to 

 have been little or no change in the methods of production, is 



A n average of averages gives $ 1 . 1 1 as the average daily wage 

 in the time of hand methods and $1.04 as tin l.iily wage 



in the time of machine methods a decrease of 6.3 per bent, 



1 Thirteenth Annual Krjx.it. I >cpt. Labor, p. n. 

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