The great problem In this country has been to secure farm labor. Farmers everywhere are demanding It. Our farmers would give employment at good wages and afford comfortable homes to this class of immigrants if they would consent to go with them. But you must remember when a man comes from southeastern Europe he. as a rule. has no knowledge of the English language. he is in a strange country. in a strange environment. he is among strange people. he can not make himself understood. nor can he understand others. instinctively he goes to a settlement where he finds his own nationality. where he can indulge the habits of his previous life. and it is the most difficult thing possible to induce one of these men to segregate himself from those communities. When he does accept employment on a farm it is as a rule near sone manufacturing center. I have seen this in Vermont. I live in a county which produces great quantities of granite. where the eighthour day prevails in that and other industries. When an immigrant goes upon a firstclass farm 6 or 10 or 12 miles from the centers of the granite industry he is closely confined to farm work. The days are necessarily long. the milking must be done before breakfast in the morning and after supper at night. Even on Sundays he is not excused from what we in New England call "chores." because dairying is the chief featureof our agriculture. and his attendance mornings and evenings is required.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that men from southeastern Europe have no knowledge of the English language, are in a strange country, and instinctively go to settlements where they find their own nationality.