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self. Bay wages appear to have reached a minimum of 

 $1.50 per da}', with $1.75 and $2 paid in many cases. 

 A considerable number of correspondents report that day 

 help is impossible to secure at any price. 



Acreage of Farm Crops. 

 Owing to the scarcity and high price of help, it seems 

 ■certain that the acreage of cultivated crops will be consider- 

 ably reduced, the reduction being most marked in corn and 

 potatoes, more land being put into or left in grass than usual. 

 The " money " crops, such as onions, tobacco and market- 

 garden crops of various kinds, will undoubtedly show about 

 the usual acreage. Farmers seem inclined, however, to make 

 the crops grown for consumption on the farm those most 

 easily managed and harvested. 



