TRUCK-FARM JLABOK IN NEW JERSEY, lit: 
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The following recommendations are the outcome of the sectional meet- 
ings held for the purpose of discussing this question. Farmers are urged 
to use them as a basis in hiring help, as they did last year. These 
recommendations apply to Italians and other help. 
Hour wage : Men, 20 cents per hour ; women, 15 cents per hour. 
Potatoes : Not to exceed 2 cents per basket. 7 
Tomatoes, can house : Not to exceed 2 cents per basket. 
Early tomatoes : Not to exceed 3^ cents per basket in field. 
Early tomatoes : Fag end of crop, 2% cents per basket. 
Cut asparagus : Not to exceed 35 cents per crate. 
Cut and bunch asparagus : Not to exceed 65 cents per crate. 
Peppers : Not to exceed 2y 2 cents per basket or hamper. 
Pick strawberries : Not to exceed 2 cents per quart. 
Crating and supervision: Not to exceed y 2 cent added to above. 
Top onions : Not to exceed 3 cents per basket in the field. 
Bunch scullions : Not to exceed 25 cents per 100 bunches. 
Beans and large peas : Not to exceed 12% cents per basket. 
Early peas : Not to exceed 15 cents per basket. 
Single men by the month : $25 and board. 
Married men by week : $10 to $12 and house rent free. 
This scale was intended to be what the farmers considered a fair 
wage for each type of work, and it was hoped that employers would 
insist upon workers accepting the rates set. The scale furnished a 
basis for bargaining at the first of the season, but in 1922 the farmers 
soon found the expected labor supply was not forthcoming at these 
rates. By July wages had risen in all cases and in some piecework 
labor actual payments were over double those set in the wage scale. 
Moreover, some farmers were found employing workers whose rates 
of pay had not been set, and which would doubtless not be set until 
toward the end of the season. 
For work at other than harvest season, men's day wages averaged 
$2.58 without board ; $2.50 was the wage most commonly paid. The 
few wage rates reported for women and minors averaged about $1 
less. Farmers boarded very few casual male farm hands at this time, 
and no women or minors. 
During harvest (see Table 12) men's day wages without board went 
up 60 cents to an average of $3.18; the most common rates were $2.50 
or $3. Many farmers boarded help at harvest time. The most com- 
mon day- wage rates with board were $3, but some reporting farmers 
paid less, bringing the average down to $2.50. There was an increase 
of wages at harvest time for women and minors ; farmers then occa- 
sionally boarded these workers. These reports were in general sup- 
ported by those of the employees themselves. 
Table 12. — Day icages at harvest, with and without board, for men, loomen, 
and minors on farms in New Jersey, 1922, as reported by employing 
farmers 
Class of employees 
. Type of farm 
General 
Truck 
Dairy 
Fruit 
Potato 
All farms 
Men without board: 
Number of reports. 
53 
$3. 28 
$3.00 
45 
$2. 64 
59 
$3.05 
$3.00 
17 
$2. 04 
$3.00 
$3.40 
$3.00 
2 
$3.00 
27 
$2. 67 
$2.50 
1 
$3.00 
4 
$6.93 
148 
Average wage . . 
$3. 18 
Most common wage... 
$2. 50 or $3. 00 
Men with board: 
Number of reports 

65 
Average wage.. .. 
$2.50 
$3.00 
Basket equals five-eighths bushel. 
