936 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 
* Farm Wages 
The average wages of farm labor in the United States, as reported by correspond- 
ents of the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Agriculture, for years indicated, was 
as follows: 
Year ending June 30, 1911. 
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Wages of Farm Labor, when employed by— 
Day, other than 
VEAR Month Day, at harvest harvest 
Without! With | Without) With | Without! With 
Board | Board | Board oard | Board | Board 
19) Oh $28.77 | $20.18 $1.85 $1.49 $1.42 $1.09 
WDLO. ee cee ee ee 27.50 19.21 1.82 1.45 1.38 1.06 
1902.0... 0 eee ee eee 22.14 16.40 1.53 1.34 1.13 89 
1899... eee ee 20.23 14.07 1.37 1.12 1.01 77 
1898.02. ee ees 19.38 13.43 1.30 1.05 .96 72 
1895... eee eee nes 17.69 12.02 1.14 92 ol 62 
1894.0... 0. eee eee eens 17.74 12.16 1.13 93 8] 63 
18938... cece ee eee 19.10 13.29 1.24 1.03 .89 69 
1892... ee eee ee nen 18.60 12.54 1.30 1.02 .92 67 
1890.0... 0 eee cee ee eee 18.33 12.45 1.30 1.02 .92 68 
1888.0... ec eee eee ee 18.24 12.36 1.31 1.02 92 67 
1885.0... cee eee nee 17.97 12.34 1.40 1.10 91 .67 
1882... ee eee nes 18.94 12.41 1.48 1.15 93 .67 
1879. cece ce eee eee 16.42 10.48 1.30 1.00 81 59 
L875. ce ene es 19.87 12.72 1.70 1.35 1.08 78 
1869T.. Lo eee ee ee 25.92 16.55 2.20 1.74 1.41 1.02 
1c) 26.87 17.45 2.20 1.74 1.49 1.08 
{In currency. *From Crop Reporter, March, 1912. 
KEEPING OUR CHILDREN ON THE cation, entertainment, and the gratifica- 
FARM 
There is only one way known to the 
writer to keep children on the farm, 
after they reach their majority, and 
that is to make the farm attractive. In 
order to make it attractive, it must be 
made financially profitable, and social- 
ly pleasant. How to make the farm as 
profitable as other lines of business, is 
the problem. In order to be made pro- 
fitable, its products must yield as much 
money, for a given amount of labor, as 
other lines of business. If the farm can 
be made to supply these needs, our young 
people will not desire to leave it, but if 
it cannot, they will continue to crowd 
into the cities for the purpose of mak- 
ing money, and obtaining social privi- 
leges they cannot obtain in the country. 
The days of social isolation are prac- 
tically past, except for a limited num- 
ber of persons, who care little for edu- 
tion of the social instincts. The farmer 
generally tries to educate his family. 
Even though he has not the advantages 
in the sparsely settled districts he sends 
his children to high school, and often to 
college, during which period they come 
into contact with the world in a broad- 
er way than ever before, and develop 
some kind of social life not possible on 
the farm. Education has created wants 
and if the farm will not furnish the 
means and opportunities to supply them, 
the best educated of our young people 
will leave the farm. 
It is a fact that with the present 
status of our industrial development, the 
farm does not produce enough to supply 
the wants of an educated citizenship. 
Statistics show that the average farm, in 
the United States, yields less in net pro- 
fits than the average wage worker re- 
ceives. Yet the average farm requires an 
