Vol. EXXIX. 
Published Weekly by The Rural Publishing Co., 
333 W. 30th 8t., New York. Price One Dollar a Year. 
OCTOBER 23. 1920 
Entered as Second-Class Matter, June 26. 1879. at the Post 
Office at New York. N. Y., under the Act of March 3. 1879. -^O. 4bOU 
The Hired Man’ s Wa^es in Farm Products 
One of the most striking: passages I have recently 
seen in my favorite farm paper was printed on page 
1507, in the issue of September 25. R. L. S. gives in 
farm produce the equivalent of a hired man’s wages for 
one day. The writer should publish the details of which 
liis comparison is a summary. Without these details 
no one who does not himself dig in the dirt will believe 
him. • WILLIAM ROLLINS. ' 
New Hampshire. 
S IX DAYS’ WAGES.—Iu The Rural N\sw- 
Yorkeb for September 25, on page 1507, under 
the heading “Will the Burnt Fanner Put Out the 
that the facts were plainly stated in the article. 
However, the cost of labor, expressed in farm pro¬ 
duce, is bad enough at best, and I am only too glad 
to go into details, as my slight contribution toward 
bettering us farmers’ condition. I stated that I paid 
this man $3.75 per nine-hour day, or $22.50 per 
week. He does not live with me, and brings his own 
dinner. The prices for the articles in question were 
current in this locality at the time the article was 
1 - 
1,15 
■’’''•-if; at $2.15. 
350 eggs at 6c.. 57 
) 
3 crates strawberries at . 
15 baskets No. 1 apples or peaches at $1.50. 
23.65 
22.50 
23.00 
21.00 
21.00 
22.50 
VARYING PRICES.—Some of these prices are 
wholesale, some low, some high, but they represent 
the range locally. These, of course, are gross prices 
—what the profit or loss on any article may be is a 
different matter. For instance, the hog will lose 
• Photo by n. Armstrong Roberts 
Holstein Coir Spring Brooke Bess Burke 2d and Her Son. Average Weight of the Cow is 2.100 Hounds. Fig. 521 
Fire?” I gave the equivalent of the wages I pay my 
hired man, per week, in farm produce. According 
to the letter sent me asking for further details, the 
writer has made a mistake; he has assumed that 
the articles mentioned paid the man’s wages for a 
day, when they really paid for six days. I am sure 
written, or were prices 1 had received for produce 
in season. They would vary with the locality. The 
list follows: 
1 ton hay, $25. loss $3.50 baling. 
150-11>. hog at 16c. 
Small calf. 130 lbs., at 17c. 
$21.50 
24.00 
22.10 
money. If we take the old rule that 10 bushels of 
corn will grow 100 pounds of hog, the porker is 
worth $16. and his feed $17.50 to $20. 
FACING THE FACTS.—Judging from what I 
know from my own experience, what I hear from 
my neighbors, and from what 1 read, farming and 
