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) 
Con- 
tract 
labor 
jumber 
of con- 
tract 
laborers 
1926—Proportion of contract laborers who were— 
(a) 
Foreign-born 
northern 
Europeans 
(0) 
Tapanese 
Mexican 
Number 
of con- 
tract 
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