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READINGS IN RURAL ECONOMICS 

 DAILY WAGES 



It is evident from an inspection of the foregoing table that the 

 variation between the highest and lowest rates of daily wages is 

 much greater under machine methods than under hand methods 

 and that the average rate of wages is much higher under machine 

 methods than under hand methods. An average of averages gives 

 83 cents for the hand method, $1.19 for machine method. 



Of course, machine power is much more used in the produc- 

 tion of some of these crops than in the production of others. In 



1 See footnote 



p. 45. 



2 With board. 



