4 BULLETIN 1211, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
TasLe 2.—Number of harvest hands interviewed who were born and raised on farms a 
in cities; and number whose first jobs were in specified industries. 
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| were— | first industry. 
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Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas. . .....| 296) 176} 229) 250) 229}. 3) 45, 16) 14) 96) 144 9 6) 7 28 12 
lowa, Nebraska, South Dakota. ..| 116) 99) 124) 74) 124) 1) 32 4) 6 S| 3) 2 1 10) 3 4 
North Dakota, Minnesota. ....-.-- 211) 236) 175, 270) 175) 14, 95, 23) 20) 52) 1) 3 5 Il) 14 32 
Potala ope eae eee 623} 502) 528) 594) 528, 18/172. 43) 40| 156] 18] 14 12, 28) 45 48 
Combined totals. ...............- 1,125 | 1,122 . 1,122 
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Percentage of combined totals. ../55. 4/44. 6/47. 1/52.9/47.1| 1.6,15.3 3.8] 3.613.9| 1.6, 1.2) 1.1) 2.5, 4. 
Fic. 2.—A North Dakota threshing crew. (Owner of farm stands at extreme right.) 
Table 3, which shows the customary occupations of 14,133 harvest- 
ers, further. illustrates the dependence of the wheat harvest upon 
the industrial labor supply. Agriculture itself furnished but 29.2— 
per cent of these harvesters. Most of them were farmers and farmers’ 
sons from Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, 
and Iowa who had completed their own harvests and had come to- 
the wheat harvests to earn some extra money. (See fig. 3.) The 
remainder were migratory farm hands. These, however, were few 
