The hired farm working force over the past 3 years has shown significant Increases in the number of persons performing 75 or more days of farmwork during the year. This report found 209.000 persons performing migratory farmwork in 1974. an increase over the 203.000 doing such work in 1973. This was the third year of increase in the size of the migratory labor force since 1971 when 172.000 migrant workers were recorded. In short. we have more persons working as migrant farmworkers than we have had for several years. We have many forced to live in terribly substandard conditions. We have public housing authorities and nonprofit organizations applying for extremely limited funds to improve the housing of these workers.