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Mr. Wirey. That might have something to do with it; but of the
cotton grown in our section, a man can not pick as much as of the
type of cotton you speak of.
Mr. Dickstein. That is the question I asked you about. What
king of cotton do they pay 2 cents or 1% cents a pound for picking?
Mr. WiLey. A man picking Pima cotton will pick anywhere {from
100 to 300 pounds a day.
Mr. Dickstein. Three hundred pounds is rare, is it not?
Mr. WiLey. No; I would say that 400 pounds would be a rare
occasion,
Mr, Dickstein. How many hours of work?
Mr. WiLsy. About 10 hours.
Mr. Dickstein. How long would it take to pick 1 pound of cotton?
Mr. WiLey. You can figure it out. I have never put a stop watch
on it.
Mr. DicksreIN. You have never figured that out?
Mr. WiLey. 1 have picked cotton myself.
Mr. DickstEIN. How much have you picked?
Mr. Winey. About 600 pounds a day.
Mr. Esterry. That is almost an acre. Do you average around 900
pounds to the acre in your irrigation project? :
Mr. Winey. On seed cotton we average about twice that; sometimes
three and four times that.
Mr. EsterLY. You speak of a Mexican earning three or four dollars
a day. Did he have his wife and children, to pick that much?
Mr. WiLey. No; I am speaking of what one person does. Quite a
few Mexicans will work shorter hours, and not earn so much. They
would rather earn less and not work so hard.
Mr. EsterLy. What do his wife and children do while he is picking
cotton?
Mr. WiLey. The children who are not of school age pick cotton.
1 Mr. EsterLy. Does that go to the father’s amount that he picks per
ay?
Mr. Wirey. No; not into that estimate of what he earns.
Mr. EsteERLY. Are not these children on the pay roll-—these children
that pick cotton?
Mr. Winey. Ido not think they are. I think the man is usually the
head of the family and he collects for them.
Mr. EsterLy. For the children?
Mr. Wirey. For the children, and for what his wife might pick.
In fact, I have seen children go out in the field and just walk along
with the Mexican, and pick some once in a while and stick it in his
sack.
Mr. Esterry. Is that the cotton you speak of, Pima?
Mr. WiLey. The acala is 1) inches long, and the American-Egyptian
 cotton is about 1% inches.
. Mr. EsterLy. It would be about the same as around Dallas, and
northern Texas; that is Pima?
Mr. WiLey. Yes; but we do not grow very much of the Acala.
Most of it is the Pima cotton.
Mr. Scaneiper. I would like to ask you just where these Mexicans
come from that you get as laborers?