TRUCK-FARM LABOR JN NEW JERSEY, 1922 
Outside of harvest season women and minors seem to be employ- 
ed most frequently by truck farmers and fruit growers; during 
harvest the fruit growers hire decidedly the largest number of 
such per employer, but a larger proportion of truck growers hire 
these workers, especially women. In harvest time the most frequent 
use of women and minors is in those truck-crop and fruit districts 
where farmers offer much work within their strength, demand cheap 
labor which may be unskilled, and pay largely on a piecework basis. 
Potato growers have somewhat heavier work to perform at harvest- 
ing, and use more boys than women at this period. 
Half of the reporting farmers hired season or noncasual help all 
the year ; six out of seven were hiring from March to October, inclu- 
sive; practically every farmer kept season help from May to Sep- 
tember, inclusive. The dairy farmers visited were the steadiest em- 
ployers of labor of any class of farmers. Most of them employed 
help all the year. Their increase of demand for labor from other 
than harvest-to-harvest time was the lowest of any class of farmers. 
The percentage of farmers hiring noncasual laborers in each month 
of the year is shown in Figure 2. 
Table 2. 
^Number of farmers hiring and number of casual and noncasual 
employees hired by season, and type of farm 
Season and kind of em- 
ployees 
Type of farm 
General 
Truck 
Dairy 
Potato 
Fruit 
All farms 
co 
11 
Ex 
CO 
w8 
s-g 
'- .- 
03,12 
ft 
c £ 
co 
3.3 
ft 
"3.2 
ft g 
<s2 
ft 
£1 
I 2 
ft 8 
CO 
II 
ft 
11 
AT OTHER THAN HARVEST 
TIME 
Casual employees: 
Men... 
6 




8 
1 
1 
12 
2 
6 












2 
3 
2 
9 
33 
22 
16 
4 
3 
28 
35 
Minors 
28 
Total i. 
6 
7 
9 
20 




4 
64 
19 
91 
Noncasual employees: 
Men... ._ 
116 
4 
8 
274 
4 
9 
138 
6 
8 
321 
13 
11 
13 
2 
3 
49 
2 
6 
23 


50 


29 
2 

249 
12 

319 
14 
19 
943 
31 
26 
Total 1 
120 
2 322 
140 
345 
13 
57 
23 
50 
29 
261 
325 
2 1, 035 
AT HARVEST TIME 
Casual employees: 
Men. 
109 
33 
21 
329 
96 
96 
110 
62 
56 
358 
182 
304 
6 

4 
27 

8 
20 
5 
12 
67 
9 
27 
31 
30 
22 
336 
278 
259 
276 
130 
115 
1,117 
Women.. 
565 
Minors... 
694 
Total i_. 
119 
2 805 
140 
2 939 
8 
35 
23 
103 
34 
873 
324 
2 2, 755 
Noncasual employees: 
Men. 
116 
4 
8 
274 
4 
9 
138 
6 
8 
321 
13 
11 
13 
2 
3 
49 
2 
6 
23 


50 


29 
2 

249 
12 

319 
14 
19 
943 
Women... 
31 
Minors 
26 
Total i . 
120 
2 322 
140 
345 
13 
57 
23 
50 
29 
261 
325 
2 1, 035 
1 Total numbers of "farmers hiring" are usually not the total of the figures given above those totals, as 
many farmers were hiring two or more classes of labor. 
2 Figures for men, women, and minors given above do not add to this total because some employers re- 
ported totals without details. 
