KKADlNCiS IN RURAL 1 < < >\()MICS 



most common labor with board is worth from $50 to 



IT, A higher quality, in which sonic care and responsibility 



;. is worth Sioo to SI2O." 1 A similar report from 



Richmond. Massachusetts, made in the same year, states : " Men 



et from ten to sixteen dollars per month and boarded, for six 



months commencing in April." 2 



On the period from 1866 to 1899, I quote from a report of 

 the I )epartmcnt of Agriculture, 3 as follows : 



WA<;i.S OK KAKM I.Al'.OR PER MONTH, !JV VLAR OR SEASON, 

 WITH BOARD, 1!V YLAKS AM) P,Y C.KOC, KAPH ICA L DIVISIONS* 



1 U.S. Patent Office Report, 1849-1850, p. 186. 



- //'/</., p. 92. 



'' Division of Statistics, Misc. Bulletin No. 22, p. 16. 



4 The geographical divisions used in this table "are composed as follows: 

 /'.,t\t<-ni States Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 

 Connecticut; Middle States New York. \r\v Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware; 

 Southern Sttttes Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, 

 Klorida, Alabama, Mississippi. Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, 

 Arkansas, Tennessee; Western States West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Michi- 

 gan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, 

 South Dakota, North Dakota ; .Mountain States Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, 



