THE YOUNG FARMER 



The problem of keeping labor continu- 

 ously employed has always been a difficult 

 one on the farm, because of the change of 

 seasons and because of the variations in the 

 weather from day to day. There is a wide 

 difference between those industries which 

 are carried on within doors and farming, 

 which is subject to the caprices of the 

 weather. Natural causes produce tremen- 

 dous variations in the return for labor. For 

 example, in 1901 there were produced in 

 the aggregate 3,006 million bushels of 

 wheat, maize and oats, while in 1902 there 

 were harvested 4,180 million bushels. Here 

 is an increase of over a thousand million 

 bushels. The same farmers tilled the same 

 soil in the same way as far as natural causes 

 would allow, and yet there was a difference 

 in result amounting to 39 per cent. A varia- 

 tion of one hundred million bushels of 

 wheat from year to year, due to climatic 

 conditions solely, is not at all unusual. 



The manufacturer also has far greater 

 control of his labor. When it rains, he has 

 a roof over his workmen, and hence the 

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