TRUCK-FARM LABOR IX NEW JERSEY, 1922 
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from church 1.4 miles 1 ; and from school 1.1 miles; from nearest 
neighbor, 0.14 mile. Half the farms lav within 1.5 miles of town, 1 
mile of church and school, and practically all within a quarter of a 
mile of a neighbor. 
Nearly half of the farms lay on or near the routes of regular public 
conveyances, such as electric railroads or motor busses. Persons 
on the remaining farms were dependent upon their own means of 
travel. Occasionally farm employees had vehicles of their own, but 
in most cases the only way they could get about was to wait until 
they could ride with their employers or with some one else. 
Over half of the farms were within easy reach of town or city 
public amusements. Most of these forms of recreation and sport, 
however, are typically American and to some extent are not available 
Fig. 12. — New summer cabins of improved type for migratory Italian farm hands. A 
farmer, recognizing the need for decent quarters for the families of Italians working 
for him in summer, was erecting these cabins, each intended for a single family. 
Each structure was to be 14 by 39 feet and to contain three rooms with board floors. 
These cabins would furnish accommodations decidedly better than were usually pro- 
vided for migratory labor 
to the foreign born, because of the barriers of language differences 
and lack of inclination or ability to take part in them. There was 
no form of recreation for farm employees available within easy reach 
of a fourth of the farms. Sometimes there were not even others of 
their class with whom to associate. In southern New Jersey, com- 
munity baseball clubs furnished frequent opportunity for diversion 
for all classes of American born. 
Half of the farmers pass on to their farm hands part or all of the 
reading matter they take, especially daily papers; but this source of 
diversion is not used by those unable to read English or by a few who 
take no interest in reading. 
The social position of most farm hands in the families of their 
employers and in the communities in which they worked was usually 
respectable, especially if they were residents. Very seldom was it 
