2 BULLETIN 1211, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
were migratory workers without permanent places of residence. (Se 
fig. 1.) b 
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viewed came to the harvest. It also gives the geographical sources o 
10,586 other harvest hands who applied for aa 
employment offices in the Wheat Belt. The table shows that ap- 
proximately 80 per cent of the harvest hands interviewed were resi- 
dents of the wheat States and the tier of States immediately east of 
them. In other words, the Mississippi Valley furnishes more than 
three-fourths of the transient harvest hands. Only 4.4 per cent 
came from the New England and Middle Atlantic States, and 0.7 per 
cent from the Pacific seaboard. Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky 
and ‘Tennessee mark the eastern border of the important sources of 
harvest labor supply, while none of the States west of the Wheat Belt 
contribute to it in an important way, except Montana. Table 1 does 
not show Montana’s contribution to have been important in 1921, but 
in years when the northeastern Montana crops are not good large 
numbers of Montana farmers come to the North Dakota harvest. 
TABLE |.—Slates from which 11,516 harvest hands came to harvest of 1921. 
Number 
_ Number reported Total Per cent 
States from which harvesters came. interviewed| by Federal- of both of total 
by field | State em- 
group. ployment 8TOUPS. | each State. 
| 
offices. 
ee ns oe 
ATI ee ole ee i ee ae eee a ee 147 1.3 
ATRANSAS ooo oa Secs se > Fase eh oe oe eee 325 2.8 
CANOES «0s o2252 2 Sel REE 2 ee ee eee 65 6 
molnpe doe ye. a or 2). 2 eS So th ee eee ee 82 =a 
NGGPIIOE GCI. 5 Stine. So elm wee oe cee ee ee eee 14 | 
NOMA sec Se sea ces ed ate eae en ce RE ey. | 21 Be. 
CREO) Ha 6: Ie epee Sos apo See ate oe See ee ee 38 3 
MUONS: Ste non so. were ORNs Rene es A ee ee: 1257 10.9 
MTNA Be oes es adie: 20,05 debe ee oe ee 306 28 
WAU Ai Sen ICKY cio BO as Sa ee Ot = eee eee ee 655 Li fey 
IBAINASE( Sot ty ec os: sank Fe 903 7.8 
entuCky “Fees be. . Sooners 183 1.6 
Moursianall > oF 484i... 24s eee 100 9 
1h TCL) =i een ee on Rael ops = 8 fi 
Massachusetts >.< .7. 3.22.2 2..82 67 6 
MCHC AN st 233 te oe che eye Laie eee es aoe eel Cee 338 2.9 
RintIMeSObA oe oe Seo. 2k a Pe eee oe oe ee. ee 773 6.7 
RMISSISSID DN... SEGGES OS is A oN ee sees 95 8 
RUSS ONVUEE | ou ee a, Si a a ee ee ee ee 2, 821 24.5 
ELUENT Ce oc) oe St Oe a ER ey ee eee. oe 66 3 
INOOTASKS se 5d tS ise tiies dates BE OE ose 262 2:3 
New Jersey...-.-.-- Fac cle, ene eects ot eee a A See Cl» eRe = 21 2 
DIBWHWIAKICOt. -. 2 occtetdde tthe Bees oe PER asad. 23s tee 18 22 
PORNO Kate i ce ecg 8 ee ee 166 1.4 
Dione Gano aio 72. aes oe Be ee 34 33 
PIOEE NA KOGA. = = ws 8 ce Sa tee Te ns wt ee ee 82 7 
MEIARO eS ae. ts 1, ee ee Pe Rn ee Rn eee 414 op 
MIL OTIIO. 06 toe oa ts See 8 Se eM on ee 682 5.9 
OTROS Pete Se ot) eek Te ee ee eS RUE Os te 2 (1) 
PCI Eryn 01 ye ih a ERT A 5 Se ie en eee 232 2.0 
MIDI SOUR. tc coe Seka esl cee co eee 5. ar 79 Cm 
Ribanrtenser cis) 2.72 ee eed eet nS eee ee 332 2.9 
LCS? a ee eae ye Pe Se a neg ee eee 494 4.3 
SCC Sa oe i Pee ne ge re, EY 18 ey 
OUEST GY 1h) 0 ea ai ed i ge Pi Seg era ey Ry Se Sa 20 29 
WISCONSIN 12 eee 3h ee dT ee ee 357 3.1 
YS VOTO oy en a Oe I NE en a eS 18 2 
Coes <8 be Sg ee REE Re M2 Sil, Ae nN, a 19 2 
TCR IEE ae, eSB rr aoe el a dh os I ken Bee 2 (4) 
KDateli yt: Be Fp eee PS od ee AC ee oo ett 11, 516 100.3 
1 Less than 0.1 per cent. 
