126 WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

Mr. Wirey. How is that?
Mr. EsterLy. Then the statements of the International Harvester
Co. that they make in all the papers are not correct?
Mr. Wingy. If they state that, it is not correct.
Mr. Esterry. They generally state that they displace anywhere
from eight men up.
Mr. WiLey. They are not talking about Mexican farm hands.
Mr. EsteErLY. They displace more, when they talk about Mexican
farm hands, since they are not so good as white.
Mr. WiLey. Since they are not as good ss white?
Mr. EsterLY. Yes.
Mr. WiLey. In our country they are better. We can not get a
white man to work in that heat. :
Mr. Esterny. Would it not appear if you had them all, that you
could cultivate more than if you had a man with a hoe?
Mr. WiLey. We can not use tractors in cultivating lettuce.
Mr. EsterLy. Why not?
Mr. WiLey. It is just due to the manner in which this crop is
planted and taken care of. You can not use a tractor.
Mr. EsterLy. Have you tried this method that is being promoted
in agriculture of using a paper mulch?
Mr. Winey. That could not be used on the lettuce crop. You
understand, we have lettuce fields of several hundred acres.
Mr. EsterLy. I have seen them. Why could you not use that
paper?
Mr. WiLeY. It is too expensive.
Mr. EsterLy. That has been tried out to see if it was too expensive?

Mr. WiLey. We have tried it on tomatoes, and while it produced
a higher yield per acre, it has proved to be too expensive; and that
crop produces $400 to $600 per acre, if the weather permit.
I wish to call attention to this, also, that we have to irrigate, in
our country, and we can not have the ground covered with a piece
of paper and then run water in there once a week, 6 inches deep, to
irrigate it, without dissolving the paper.
Mr. CaBre. Can you give us some idea of the investment you
have down there, and how much the land is worth per acre?
Mr. Wirey. Land values, right now, I think, range from $100 to
$2,000 per acre.
Mr. Casre. What is the income net, per acre, from those $2,000
an acre lands?
Mr. Winey. Nothing.
Mr. CaBre. What?
Mr. Wirey. It has not been anything for the past few years, on
the average. There have been individuals who have wk money
and there have been other individuals who have lost. Those lands
of very high value, $2,000 an acre and so on, that I speak of, however,
 are principally citrus lands and required a heavy investment
to bring them into bearing. That is included in the value of the land.
Mr. Casre. The profit there is in the increase in the value of the
and?
. Mr. Winey. How is that?