80 MISCELLANEOUS FARM SUBJECTS 



face it should be wrapped in parchment paper; or old newspapers 

 will do where parchment can not be had. Then inclose in heavy 

 muslin or canvas, and cover with yellow wash or ordinary lime white- 

 wash, glue being added. Hang each piece out so that it does not 

 come in contact with other pieces. Do not stack in piles. 



Recipe for Yellow Wash. For 100 pound hams or bacon 

 take 3 pounds barytes (barium sulphate) ; 0.06 pound glue; 0.08 

 pound chrome yellow (lead chromate) ; 0.40 pound flour. Half fill 

 a pail with water and mix in the flour, dissolving all lumps thor- 

 oughly. Dissolve the chrome in a quart of water in a separate vessel 

 and add the solution and the glue to the flour ; bring the whole to a 

 boil and add the barytes slowly, stirring constantly. Make the wash 

 the day before it is required. Stir it frequently when using, and 

 apply with a brush. (F. B. 183.) 



RELATION BETWEEN PRODUCTION AND WAGE RATES. 



Necessarily in the long course of time the employing fanner 

 must depend upon the value of his products for the wages that he 

 pays to his laborers. He can not go on indefinitely paying wages out 

 of capital, but he must in the general experience pay them out of 

 farm products. Hence it follows as a matter of inference that farm 

 wages may be higher in those States in which the value of the prod- 

 ucts per worker is higher than in those States in which the value of 

 products per worker is lower. 



This conclusion is amply substantiated in the investigation of 

 farm wages in 1909. The highest wages are paid in the Western 

 division of States, and in this division the average value of farm 

 products per agricultural worker in 1899 was $759. Next below this 

 division in both rate of wages and average value of farm products 

 per worker, $678, is the North Central division ; and third in order 

 in both respects is the North Atlantic division. The South Central 

 division is fourth in order in both rate of wages and value of prod- 

 ucts per worker, which is $271 ; and last of all is the South Atlantic 

 division in both respects, the average value of products per worker 

 being $233. These values stand for gross amount of products, and 

 not for net wealth produced. 



Advantage of Farm Wages in Purchasing Power. If the farm 

 laborer is comparing his nominal rate of money wages with the 

 similar rate of the motorman or conductor of the electric railway 

 who lives in the city, he must take into consideration the less costly 

 living that he gets on the farm. In some respects it is a better living, 

 against which of course there must be made a set-off of features that 

 are in some respects worse. 



The farm laborer gets many things at prices which are as low 

 as wholesale prices in the motorman's city, and sometimes lower. 

 He can get his supply of poultry at low prices, if he does not produce 

 it himself; and so with eggs, milk, and butter; sometimes flour and 

 meal; very likely potatoes and other vegetables and fruit. At low 

 prices he may also get fresh and salt pork, his fuel and, in many 

 parts of the country, his tobacco. If he pays rent for his dwelling, 



