FARM LABOR 



that the greater the amount of any useful 

 commodity produced by a single day's labor 

 the larger will be the laborer's income or 

 wages. 



Although the increase in intensive agri- 

 culture and the diversification in farming 

 tend to increase the need of farm laborers, 

 the introduction of farm machinery has 

 much more than offset this demand. The 

 tendency of farm laborers to become farm 

 tenants; or, to state it in other words, the 

 tendency of landowners to rent their land 

 rather than to continue to operate it them- 

 selves, is not without its influence upon the 

 labor problem. 



The invention and introduction of farm 

 machinery has accentuated the difficulty of 

 keeping the farm laborer continuously em- 

 ployed. The decrease in the demand for 

 farm labor and the increasing lack of uni- 

 formity in the amount required have caused 

 a gradual depletion of the smaller villages 

 and hamlets which were a source of labor 

 supply during harvest and other busy sea- 

 sons. 



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