This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...because even these are not in all districts relatively numerous. The construction of railways in many different parts of the country has also drawn off the supply from the farm labour market. The relative freedom and the relatively high wages constitute together an inducement irresistible to men who look forward to a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...because even these are not in all districts relatively numerous. The construction of railways in many different parts of the country has also drawn off the supply from the farm labour market. The relative freedom and the relatively high wages constitute together an inducement irresistible to men who look forward to a speedy accumulation of capital sufficient to establish themselves on land of their own. For these reasons it would appear either that the dominant factor in North-West farming must be the mere homesteader, non-labour-employing Cf. System of Survey and Homesteading, supra, p. 23. f The details of the districts in Manitoba, into which these harvesters have gone temporarily, and the numbers, are given in the annual reports of the Department of Agriculture of Manitoba. The Department assists the farmers to obtain the amount of labour necessary to get in their crops by acting as a kind of employment agency through their offices in Toronto and elsewhere. farmer or peasant proprietor; or that, alternatively, the labour-employing farmer must abandon intermittent employment, and must provide employment and accommodation for his labourers all the vear round. In order to do this, it may be necessary for him to change his system of farming; and instead of specializing in crops which require only intermittent labour, to embark in mixed farming to a much greater extent than heretofore. It is true that the organization of harvesting and even of ploughing companies, by means of which peripatetic groups may do farm work by contract, might mitigate the effect of scarcity of skilled farm labour under present conditions. It may be pointed out, however, that the farmer might find the greater part of his farming profits absorbed by such agencies, and in any case the...
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