The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-12

~ 10 NuilOuo w uplI Nlithl AllC NAAiltANilNN
in the rate in 1866, between the several
great divisions of the country was only
twelve cents, a most remarkable uniformi-
ty. 1t is accounted for by the great de-
mand after the exhaustion Of the war, for
food supplies in all the country, by the
need in the western states of increasing the
number of farm animals depleted by the
war, and by the stimulaut to agricultural
industry of the mechanical industries of
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The table of wages for several states in
1876, shows great differences, the highest
price per month with board beng paid In
the territory of Wyoming, $3.50, and
without board S32 so; and the lowest in
South Carolina, berg without board S12.S4
and with board 1913. The average price
for the whole country is Sl2 40 with board,
being decline of % per cent in six years
from 1869.
The highest prices are paid in the east
ern states, where manufacturing industry
comes in competition with farm labor, in
the Pacific states and in the sparsely settled
western territories, where the products of
agriculture cannot support the mining
population.
The average prices Of labor, with board,
in 1915, is, in the southern states, $10.17;
seSf f II us qs fl8 66 il 5o tbs So middle 1I5
SEA 0S. The low rates for all the territor
les is caused by the small wages paid in
New Mexico, SLABS per month.
The prices paid for day labor differ it
about the same proportion, the rate being
gratest in the eastern states, on the Pacific
coast and in the territories, and least in the
southern states. The highest rates is in
Wyoming, SO. Co. the lowest in New Next.
CO. 90 cents, and Florida ~ cents.
The wages in Maine are S1.49 in New
Hampshire, $1.G4 in Vermont, $1.S5; in
Massachusetts,, sl.50; in Rhode Island
81 so; in Connecticut, S1.53; in New orh
$1.75 in New Jersey, S2.03; in North Car
DINA, ST 90; in South Carolina, S1.01; il
Georgia, 90 cents; in Florida, ~ cents; il
Nebraska, 81 9S; in Minnesota, 50 80; in
Iowa, $40 in California, $500, and in
Montana, 81 20.
The cost of boarding laborer would bt
the difference between the wages without
and the wages with board. The highest
price is in IT,, territories, ranging iron
So. so per month IN New Mexico to S11.3G
in Colorado.
In Oregon it is 81. so, and in California
$3.50. In what may be called the Yves
tern agricultural states, it ranges iron
So. 20 IN Tennessee to 80. SO in Minnesota
In the southern states. the lowest is 81. o.
in South Carolina, and the highest S1,5'
in Arkansas. In the middle states, tn
lowest is $500 in Maryland, and the high
est in 1898 in New Jersey. In the east
ern states. the lowest is 80 46 in Maine
and the highest Sligo in Massachusetts.
Formerly all grain was reaped by hand
or cradled and then it was generally KEEP
until winter and threshed, furnishing man
months work to many hands with the hal
But now nearly all grain is reaped by ma
chinery, and most of it threshed in tn
field. The harvesting is done in fey
DAYS, and the grain is put into the markC
much sooner than IN olden time The COS
of harvesting and tbreshng is greatly re
duced. Ordinary machines propelled b
horsepower, will thYsh 100 bushels c
wheat and 200 bushels of oats per day, at
cost for wheat of 8 to II cents bushe
and of to cents for oats.
In the middle states steami machinery
r superseding horsepower, and general
, costs about cents bushel for wheat,
cents for barley, and cents for oats. /
t the middle and western states, the steai
machinery will turn out from 800 to 81
bushels of wheat per day, ready for Il
market, and at an entire cost of 10 to
cents bushel.
The cost of harvesting and stackin
wheat, including the labor of men al
horses, varies from 81 25 in Alabama