In addition. farm labor has been difficult to obtain. The general standards of farm labor have lagged materially behind the standards of workers in industry and the service trades. There has been a great deal of investigation. especially by the Senator from New Jersey . as chairman of the Migratory Labor Subcommittee. we have been appalled by the conditions--which we find to be intolerable in modern timeson the farm for migrant laborers. Here we are putting agricultural workers under some sort of minimum wage. again on a slowly steppedup basis. adding only a ceiling of $1.30. on February 1. 1969. which represents an elementary measurea recognition of the fact that farms. in so many cases now. are largely factories for the production of food and fiber. They are no longer the bucolic paradise which ancient legend and ideas would have us believenot that it was anything but admirable and magnificent. and made our country what it is today.