TRUCK-FARM LABOR IN NEW JERSEY, 1922 
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the instances of loss of work occurred in that year. Workers re- 
ported leaving of their own accord and for such reasons as offers of 
better pay elsewhere or for a change much less often than they 
were thrown out of work. Dissatisfaction with working conditions 
was seldom mentioned. 
EARNINGS AND SAVINGS 
Information was asked of the farm employees as to their cash 
earnings in 1921 from all sources and from agriculture, ai i a the 
amounts from their earnings which they furnished their faLdies 
in that year (Table 10). The replies given were largely estimates 
and took no account of perquisites, which, in many instances, may 
have been of decided value; as, for instance, in the cases of per- 
sons boarded by their employers. About a third of the farm em- 
ployees, when interviewed, were receiving board in addition to cash 
payments. 
The work at which these earnings had been made was in three 
cases out of five farm work only ; one-fourth as many more had en- 
gaged in other work also. The work other than agriculture was 
largely common labor or industrial work. 
Table 10. — Cash earnings in 1921 of farm- employees interviewed in 1922 
Cash earnings and persons earning or sharing 
Ameri- 
can born 
Foreign 
born 
361 
$566. 68 
133 
$686. 88 
117 
$797. 21 
51 
$785. 76 
106 
392 
$854 31 
$231.01 
45 
201 
$813. 98 
$182. 23 
13.0 
30.7 
48.2 
64.3 
84.8 
95.0 
3.0 
18.0 
36.8 
60.9 
77.4 
93.2 
303 
$446. 30 
91 
$500.91 
185 
$552. 85 
$15 to 
$4,000 
56 
$620. 50 
$40 to 
$3,000 
All em- 
ployees 
From all sources: 
All laborers — 
Number reporting 
Average 
Heads of families- 
Number reporting 
Average 
Heads of families and their dependents — 
Number of families reporting 
Total number family membeis 
Average per family -_ 
Average per family member 
Percentage of all emplovees who reported less than— • 
$100 
$300 
$500 
$700 
$1,000 
$1,500 
From agriculture : 
Number reporting 
Average 
Furnished families (for their support): 
Number reporting 
Average 
Range of earnings (from all sources, from agriculture, furnished families) 
494 
$599. 04 
168 
$793. 
151 
593 
$842.29 
$214. 48 
10.3 
27.3 
45.1 
63.4 
82.8 
94.5 
394 
$458.91 
241 
$568.57 
$15 to 
$4, 000 
The average, amount of money received from all sources by all 
workers reporting averaged just under $600 for the year. The 
foreign born earned on the average $120 more than the native-born 
worker. This is accounted for by the fact that so large a proportion 
of the native born were very young or in school and earned but 
little. Most of the foreign born were adults working steadily. The 
miners were largely included among those earning less than $300. 
Those under 20 years of age earned an average of about three- 
sevenths as much as did those older, and it is probable that a smaller 
