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during harvest. Other farmers hire a man by the year. 

 A very small percentage hire more than two or three men 

 by the year. Even with three men, the farm still has the 

 characteristic of the family-farm. The farmer and his sons 

 work with the men. 



TABLE 34. AVERAGE SIZE OP FARMS IN THE UNITED STATES l 



1 Twelfth Census, Vol. V, pp. xxxi, 688, 692. 



2 Number of acres of barley, buckwheat, corn, rice, oats, rye, wheat, 

 hay, tobacco, cotton, hops, and sugar cane. 



TABLE 35. DISTRIBUTION OF FARM LAND IN DIFFERENT 

 SIZED FARMS IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1910 



The whole policy of this country, since the passage of 

 the Preemption Act in 1841, has been for the establishment 



