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BULLETIN 1220, V. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Day help are boarded by farmers comparatively little, the practice 
of furnishing board being confined largely to dairy and livestock 
farmers and especially to general farmers. Wage rates with board 
averaged somewhat over a dollar less than without board, or above 
$2 per day. 
Perquisites in addition to wages are given to few day men. When 
given, they consist largely of dinners, and car fares are sometimes 
paid. 
Table 11. — Day wages with and without board for men, women, and minors, on certain 
types of farms in Massachusetts. 1921. 
AT TIMES OTHER THAN HARVEST TIME. 
Type of farm. 
Cran- 
berry 
bog. 
Straw- 
berry. 
Dairy 
and 
live- 
stock. 
Gen- 
eral. 
Market 
garden. 
Tobacco 
and 
onions. 
All 
farms. 
Men, without board: 
Number of reports. . 
Average wage 
Most common wage. 
Men, with board: 
Number of reports. . 
Average wage 
Most common wage. 
Women, without board: 
Number of reports. . 
Average wage 
Most common wage. 
Women, with board. 1 
Minors, without board: 
Number of reports. . 
Average wage 
Most common wage. 
Minors, with board: 
Number of reports. . 
Average wage 
36 
$3.07 
S3. 00 
1 
$3.00 
38 
$3.16 
83.00 
127 
S3. 19 
83.00 
32 
82.00 
2.50 
54 
$3.54 
83.00 
82.03 
82.29 
1 
83.00 
23 
82.22 
6 
82.02 
81.92 
1 
81.54 
1 
82.00 
$3.21 
$3.00 
$2.31 
2.00 
3 
82.63 
3 
$1.92 
342 
$3.23 
83.00 
62 
82. 04 
82.00 
or $2. 50 
42 
82.36 
$2.00 
16 
SI. 96 
2 
$1.77 
AT HARVEST TIME. 
Men, without board: 
Number of reports. . 
Average wage 
Most common wage. 
Men, with board: 
Number of reports. . 
Average wage 
Most common wage. 
Women, without board: 
Number of reports. . 
Average wage 
Most common wage. 
Women, with board. 1 
Minors, without board: 
Number of reports. . 
Average wage 
Minors, with board: 
Number of reports. . 
Average wage 
6 
$4.37 
3 
84. 33 
$2.50 
$2.63 
35 
$3.41 
$3.00 
18 
82:05 
2 
83.25 
1 
$1.60 
1 
82. 50 
131 
83.39 
83.00 
33 
82.20 
82.75 
2 
$2.25 
25 
$3.64 
$3.00 
or$4. 00 
2 
S2.75 
14 
82.38 
$2. 50 
7 
82.01 
102 
$3.21 
83.00 
6 
$2.13 
14 
83.31 
83.00 
2 
51. 88 
$3.34 
$3.00 
$2.17 
$2.00 
or $2. 50 
50 
$2.90 
83.00 
12 
82.00 
1 
$2.50 
1 No reports upon this basis. 
Women are seldom hired by Massachusetts farmers, except at har- 
vest time, and then largely by market gardeners and growers of 
Sumatra tobacco. Practically none of them are boarded by their 
employers. Their common wage rate for work other than harvest 
was $2 per day and in harvest $3. Many women working on cran- 
