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American Economic Association 

 DAILY WAGES 



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* See footnote " i ", p. 21. 



It is evident from an inspection of the foregoing 

 table that the variation between the highest and lowest 

 rates of daily wages is much greater under machine 

 methods than under "hand methods and that the aver- 

 age rate of wages is much higher under machine 

 methods than under hand methods. An average of 

 averages gives 83 cents for the hand method, $1.19 for 

 machine method. 



Of course, machine power is much more used in the 

 production of some of these crops than in the produc- 

 tion of others. In several cases, production is still 

 almost wholly by hand method. 2 In such cases the 



1 With board. 



2 Thirteenth Annual Report, Dept. of Labor, p. n. 



