I'KRTILIZINC, Tlili I'iliLUS WITH CANAL -MUD 



In the lower section, along the path, basketfuls of canal mud had been applied in two 

 rows at the rate of more than lOO tons per acre. The upper section shows three men dis- 

 tributing canal mud between the rows of a field of Windsor beans. 



This farmer was paying his laborers one hundred cash per day and providing their 

 meals, which he estimated worth two hundred cash more, making twelve cents, gold, for a 

 ten-hour day. Judging from what we saw and from the amount of mud carried per load, 

 we estimated the men would distribute not less than eighty- four loads of eighty pounds each 

 per day, an average distance of five hundred feet, making the cost 3.57 cents, gold, per ton 

 for distribution. 



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