Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-19
Labor: Costs
Farmer Less;
Income Less
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel

III AnO OH VVdIUcS I1ObSl.
Raleigh, Aug. 19-On July 1 North
Carolina farmers were hiring laborers
slightly cheaper than a year previous,
and the States supply of and demand
for farm labor were in exact balance,
according to figures compiled by the
United State Department of Agricul-
ture and made available here through
the State Department of Agriculture.
On the other hand, the same North
Carolina farmers, according to the
same set of statistics, were receiving
far less for their produce of prac-
tically all kinds than they were a
year ago.
The figures show that as of July
North Carolina farm !aborers, work
ing by the month, were receiving
SITS and board, or if they boarded
themselves, they were getting $4,000
These wages compared with $18.25 and
$26.25 last year.
Farm labor by the day, with board
was costing 95 cents, without board
$780, exactly the same average daily
wages as were paid last year at the
same period.
Compared with states listed as
South Atlantic, these wages were
neither the highest nor lowest, farm
labor in Delaware, Maryland, Vir-
ginia, and West Virginia command
ing higher wages, while those of
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida
were getting far less, ranging down
to the South Carolina worker who was
making an average of $12 month.
with board, and $3.50, without.
AS whole, wages were lower in the
South Atlantic group than in any
other except the east south centra!
group Of Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala
bama and Mississippi.
Demand for farm labor was listed
at 80 per cent of normal in North
"a last year, supply was set at SO per
cent against 83 per cent last year.
For the entire country the labor
supply was listed as 1898 per cent Of
the demand, with the former given
as Oil per cent of normal and de-
mand as 1877 per cent.
In the matter of average prices re-
ceived for farm products, as of June
Is. the North Carolina farmer was
in much worse shape than a year ago,
according to the U. S. D. A. figures.
Of IS products listed only four
bringing higher prices in North Car
DINA this year than last, while one
other was at exactly the same level.
The other 81 showed decreases, many
of them marked and severe.
The quartet Of advanced products
were potatoes bringing 70 cents bus
hel against IS last year, mules selling
at an average of STA each against
$170 last year, chickens at II cents a
pound compared with 1872 and eggs
bringing 1919 cents a dozen as against
1913 cents last year.
Milk COWS were holding their own,
at an average price of SAP per head.
the identical figure as on June Is,
1897. VI fo - asp
Other products with 1888 and 1887
prices we're:
Wheat .8S and 129; corn SO and
lib; oats AT and 68; barley 20 and
90; rye SO and 1.07; buckwheat 80
and 95; sweet potatoes 80 and .95;
hay 1910 and 1880; cotton 8.4 and
1870; cottonseed 22.O0 and $780, APP
Piles 80 and 1.50; hogs, per 100 lbs
800 and $40; beef cattle $40 and $40;
veal calves 74O and 800; sheep, 4.3c
and 445; lambs, 100 and $780, horses
per head, 122 and 100; butter % and
"a; butterfat % and 27; wool .21 and
.35.
If there was a ray of comfort in
the figures it came in the fact that
North, Carolina averages on all these
products were higher than the ma
tional average except in the case of
sweet potatoes, beef cattle, milk cows,
butter and butterfat. Tar Heels were
getting axactly the national average
'or their hogs.