Unremitting efforts to invent nachinery which would displace some of this hand labor have been successful to only a small degree. The great bulk of the labor in the fields is now done by hand. and. so far as any infornmation in our possession justifies us In prophesying. will continue to be done by hand. The sature of the work to be done. and the low wages which the industry has felt able to pay. have made it necessary to depend upon cheap immigrant labor. When. last spring. Michigan beet growers appealed to the governor of the State for convict labor to meet an emelgency labor shortage.
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