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WAGES OP FARM LABOR PER MONTH, BY YEAR OR 

 SEASON, WITH BOARD, BY YEARS AND BY GEO- 

 GRAPHICAL DIVISIONS. 1 



1899 1898 1895 1894 1893 1892 1890 

 U. States . $14 07 $13 43 $12 02 $12 16 $13 29 $12 54 $12 45 



Pac. States . 24 97 23 30 20 54 22 60 25 63 24 25 22 50 



1888 1885 1882 1879 1875 1869 1866 



U. States. . $12 36 $12 34 $12 41 $10 43 $11 07 $IT 03 $12 38 



E. States. . 17 21 16 70 16 92 13 03 16 18 15 29 14 77 



M. States . 15 41 15 24 14 71 12 37 14 78 12 25 13 33 



S. States . . 9 90 9 90 9 92 8 46 8 65 7 03 7 62 



W. States . 15 09 15 20 15 60 12 75 13 43 n 36 12 09 



Mt. States . 21 99 19 74 27 08 11 78 



Pac. States . 25 08 24 37 23 73 25 88 28 12 25 44 29 47 



The Department of Agriculture has also reported on 

 the " wages of farm labor per month, by year or season, 

 with board." for the year iqoz. 2 The average rate for 



x The geographical divisions used in this table "are composed as 

 follows : Eastern States Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa- 

 chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut ; Middle States New York, 

 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware; Southern States Maryland, 

 Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, 

 Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Arkansas, 

 Tennessee ; Western States West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Michi- 

 gan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, 

 Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota ; Mountain States Montana, 

 Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho ; 

 Pacific States Washington, Oregon, California." Depart, of Agr.; 

 Division of Statistics, Misc. Bull. No. 22, p. 16. 



The data for the years prior to 1879 have been changed to a gold 

 basis and a correction has been made, of what was evidently a clerical 

 error, in the rale reported for the Western States in 1866. For the 

 purpose of making this correction the cost of board in the Western 

 States, in 1866, was assumed to have been the same as in the Pacific 

 States where wages without board were practically the same at that 

 date as in the Western States. 



Department of Agriculture (Div. of Stat.), Misc. Bull., No. 26, 

 p. IS- 



