210 



Agricultural Prices 



WAGES IN THE CITY AND ON THE FARM, WITH DUN'S 



INDEX NUMBER. 



(On the basis of 1913 equals l.CO.) 



♦From 1860 to 1890. wages are based on the investigation made by the 

 Department of Labor for the senate committee investigating prices and 

 wages, and reported in Senate Document 1394. Wages from 1890 to 1907 

 are based on Bulletin 77 of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and from 1907 

 to 1913 on unpublished data of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, prepared 

 for the San Francisco Exposition. Figures since 1913 are estimated from 

 reports of manufacturing establishments in New York state, reports of 

 wages paid by the United States Steel Corporation, and reports of the 

 Bureau of Labor Statistics as to wages existing in cotton goods, men's 

 clothing, lumber, and furniture industries. It is believed that the figures 

 since 1913 are roughly accurate, but that they may have to be revised to 

 make them comparable with the preceding series. Farm-hand wages are 

 derived from the December, 1919, Monthly Crop Reporter of the Bureau of 

 Crop Estimates. 



