Excerpt from The Hired Farm Working Force of 1957: A Progress Report The number of farm wage workers who spent the greater part of their time in 1957 doing farm wage work-two - fifths of the total was the lowest recorded since this series began in 19a5. The decrease occurred both among those who supplemented their farm wage earnings with nonfarm work and those who did not (table The number who were chiefly engaged in farm work other than wage work in 1957 (farm opera tion or unpaid family work) was greater than it had been since 1951. The over - all result was a reduction in the proportion chiefly engaged in farm work from about three - fifths in 195a and 1956 to just over one half of the hired farm working force in 1957. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Hired Farm Working Force of 1954 Thirteen percent of the hired farm working force who worked 25 days or more at farm wage work in 1959 earned or more in cash farm wages compared with 7 percent who earned that much in 1952 (table Almost 70 percent received less than in farm wages in 1959; but the propor tion that made less than $900 from such work dropped from 50 to 95 percent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.