FARM LABOR 



The rustic monarch of the field descries, 

 With silent glee, the heaps around him rise. 

 A ready banquet on the turf is laid 

 Beneath an ample oak's expanded shade. 

 The victim ox the sturdy youth prepare: 

 The reaper's due repast, the women's care." 



There is also another reason why the age 

 of the employed has been raised. It is 

 due to the growth of higher education. 

 Where formerly the farmer's children be- 

 tween the ages of twelve and twenty-one did 

 most of the farm work, now many of them 

 at the same age are attending schools and 

 colleges. The sons of a man, who a genera- 

 tion ago found no opportunity to get beyond 

 the district school, graduate from high 

 school and college, and thus spend most of 

 their time in study until they are past 

 twenty-one years of age. 



Labor unions have doubtless caused a 

 scarcity of farm labor by increasing the pro- 

 portion of the created wealth which goes 

 to the man who labors without capital. 

 When a man can obtain fifty cents an hour 

 for laying brick, he does not wish to work 

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