MASSACHUSETTS— BRRH1VE OF BUSINESS 



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Photograph by Leon H. Abdalian 



FILLING TUBES WITH TOOTH PASTE: MASSACHUSETTS 



The big containers are full of paste. Rach girl can fill 10,000 tubes a day. Rverywhere 

 one goes in the Bay State labor-saving machinery is in evidence. Yet everywhere the more 

 labor is saved the more work there is for labor to do. 



the corn and wheat find a place to grow. 

 Some of these stone fences are so thick 

 that a carriage and pair could drive along 

 the tops. 



the farmer's losing battle 



For more than two centuries the sturdy 

 yeomen of Massachusetts waged an ag- 

 gressive battle against the forests to ob- 

 tain room for their crops. Then, in 1850, 

 came a stalemate, and for thirty years 



the battle line between the field and the 

 forest showed a little wavering, but no 

 real change. 



But when it seemed that a draw was 

 the inevitable end of the struggle a new 

 ally appeared on the side of the forest. 

 High wages and short hours for labor in 

 urban industries began to cause whole- 

 sale desertion from the forces of the 

 farm. 



Then the line wavered and broke ; in 



