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tivestock feeding there will be little employment for farm workers until the
apring.
For the State of Wyoming, the report says:
Harvesting of the sugar-beet and miscellaneous. fall crops was completed
early in the month and, except in connection with livestock feeding, there will
be little employment offered for farm workers until the spring.
For Nevada, the report says: “There will be little employment for
agricultural labor until the spring months, except for the usual livestock
 feeding during the winter months.” And again, “some surplus
of skilled and unskilled metal-mine labor was also apparent. EER
For Idaho, the report says that “the supply of construction labor
exceeded demands.”
For Montana, the report says:
The usual winter surplus of labor prevailed, chiefly outdoor seasonal workers.
Except for livestock feeding, there will be little employment for agricultural
workers until the spring.
For the State of Colorado, the reports says:
The surplus of labor apparent consisted principally of outdoor seasonal workers.
 And, again, the usual surplus of construction labor was apparent.
For Oregon, the report says:
Although the supply of workers was greatly in excess of demands in all industries,
 this is the usual situation at this time of the year.
For the State of Washington, the report says:
The volume of employment decreased, which is the usual situation at this
season of the year. * * * There were no labor demands from the agriculbural
 sections and employment on large construction projects decreased.
Mr. Husuing. I will now insert in the record the digest made by
me of an investigation entitled Mexican Labor in the United States
Valley of the South Platte, Colo.,” by Paul S. Taylor, published by
the University of California. I made this digest for Mr. Green for
another purpose, but parts of it fit well here. What is said of the
Mexican in the Valley of the South Platte applies to him elsewhere in
the United States generally, for by crossing a State border or the
United States border his habits and characteristics are not changed.
The digest in question reads as follows:

INTRODUCTION

Page 97: Each spring thousands of Mexican families migrate to the valleys
of California, Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, Idaho, and Wyoming, some going to
Montana, South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota. During war years they penetrate
 even to the beet fields of Canada and east of Detroit. In late October the
tide recedes southward but each year a residue is left who winter on farms or in
i towns, awaiting the reopening of beet work or who pass into the basic
industries.

NORTHEASTERN COLORADO

Page 102-108: In the early years of Colorado beet growing, the greater part
of the work was done by local boys and girls and by the farmers themselves, but
with intensive agriculture in beet-sugar production a demand for outside labor
was created and about in 1901 German-Russians were brought in with a few
Belgians. The outbreak of the World War in 1914 stopped this immigration and
while some Japs had previously done some of the work, the Mexicans began to be
imported as early as 1903, and during the war the first bulk shipments of Mexicans
from old Mexico were made. The increased employment of Mexicans is due,
first to expansion of the sugar beet acreage, second to the disappearance of other