HUMAN EFFORT AS A FACTOR IN PRODUCTION 



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commanded by other Asiatics. In 1908 their wages varied from 25 

 to 50 cents per day less than was paid to Japanese. This difference 

 has tended to disappear, however; for the East Indians, when they 

 have found employment in a community, have demanded as high 

 wages as were paid to other Asiatics. Though in some instances they 

 have commended themselves to ranchers, they have generally been 

 regarded as distinctly inferior to laborers of other races and as not 

 cheap labor at the wages which they have been paid. Usually they 

 have done the work not desired by other races or have been employed 

 when other laborers were not available at the customary or even a 

 higher wage. 



66. STATISTICS OF NEGROES IN AGRICULTURE 1 



The accompanying table presents the principal statistics of agri- 

 culture for negro and for white farmers in 1910 and in 1900 for the 

 United States as a whole. 



TABLE I 



* A minus sign ( ) denotes decrease. 



1 From "Negroes in the United States," Bidletin 129, Bureau of the Census 

 Department of Commerce, pp. 36-39. 



