AGRICULTURAL WAGES 



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was a decline, which lasted until 1899, during which period the rate 

 declined as low as 96 cents in 1895. The rate for 1902 was $1.23; 

 for 1906, $1.45; and for 1909, $1.43. 



The geographic divisions of states take their customary order in 

 the rates of day wages for day labor in harvest work. The rate in 

 1909 in the Western States was $2.02; in North Central, $1.87; in the 

 North Atlantic, $1.62; in the South Central, $1.10; and in the South 

 Atlantic, $1.03. 



For day labor other than harvest work, with board, the rate in 

 1866 was 64 cents in the United States. It reached 68 cents in 1874 

 or 1875, and declined during the industrial depression of the seventies, 

 so that the subsequent increase reached 70 cents in 1881 or 1882. 

 From that year to 1898 the rate of day wages for labor other than 

 harvest work, with board, remained about stationary, except for the 

 depression of the nineties. In 1898 the rate was 71 cents; hi 1899, 

 75 cents; 1902, 83 cents; in 1906, $1.03; and in 1909, the same 

 amount, $1.03. 



There is still the same arrangement of geographic divisions as 

 before, in 1909, in order of amount of rate of wages paid for labor 

 other than harvest work, with board. 



TABLE 17 



AVERAGE WAGE RATES OF OUTDOOR LABOR OF MEN ON FARMS, PER DAY FOR DAY LABOR IN HAR- 

 VEST WORK, WITH AND WITHOUT BOARD, BY GEOGRAPHIC DIVISIONS, 9 INVESTIGATIONS 

 FROM l8gi TO IQOQ 



WITHOUT BOARD 



WITH BOARD 



