TABLE 4.—Sugar beets—Character of labor employed, in hand work on beets, 1926 and 1922

Percentage of
hand Fox done
Yo

(a)
Farmer,
hired
labor,
and
‘armer’s
family

(b)
Contract

labor

jumber
of contract

laborers

1926—Proportion of contract laborers who were—

(a)
Foreign-born
northern
Europeans

(0)
Tapanese

Mexican

Number
of contract

1aborers

1922—Proportion of contract laborers who were—

a)
Foreign-born
Northern
Europeans

(0)
Japanese

{L)
Mexicans

-
’
1

o
x

Central area:
Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, and
Minnesota...
Mountain area:
Nebraska, Colorado, 1daho, Utah,
and Montana... .. cocceemncen-.
Coast area:
California...

3.

oo

or

29, 43¢

Per cent' Number: Per cent| Number: Per cent Number
15 10, 199 | 50 | 11,100 |

20, 920

5

Per el Fer cent| Number| Per ug
B58 | 12,125 |- LT Bal 7,140

*, 759
47
0, 146

Total. -

=

4
:
3
2