8 MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 30i 



Family and Hired Labor 



One of the most important changes in farm life has been due to unemployment 

 in the city. Considerable increase in farm population has been caused by the 

 return to the farm home of members of the family formerly living and working 

 in the city. On practically every farm visited, at least one such additional person 

 was found. Among these were married children with their families, brothers, 

 sisters, and more distant relatives or friends. As a result most of the producers 

 were supplied with more labor than they could use. As indicated in Table 4, 

 practically every farm had some assistance from the members of the family, 

 either on a full- or a part-time basis. Comparatively few producer-distributors 

 hired labor with payment of wages. 



Table 4. Family and Hired Labor of Producer-Distributors in 1931-32 



Attleboro Gardner Newburyport 



Number — ■ 



Working Number of Farms Number of Farms Number of Farms 



Full Time Part Time Full Time Part Time Full Time Part Time 



1 29 17 14 7 11 5 



2 2 5 8 3 2 1 

 3 



1 5 6 5 5 3 3 



2 —22111 

 3 

 4 



7 



Producers in Gardner Area 



The number of producers supplying milk to Gardner distributors and their 

 total output have changed little since 1930. (Table 5.) Like producer-distributors, 

 most of them owned small herds, less than 20 per cent having 15 cows or more. 



Table 5. Average Daily AIilk Production ok Producers in Gardner Area 



