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impinges very closely upon the agricultural regions. When we first began to bother about these things more people worked in forests and farms than ever worked in industries. When the Labor Department was set up there weren't very many industries. But more and more the Labor Department took over the control of this labor.”

Of course, the Swedes have a very near Socialist scheme of things and a very advanced civilization. Their Labor Department has something to do with the fixing of wages on farms. Certain labor laws apply to farm laborers.

I think that something of that sort may be true in Denmark, and in some other countries.

I discussed this at Geneva with other ministers and my feeling always was, as I tried to express it with regard to our problem here, that our agricultural problem is so complex in the United States that if you tried to fix a minimum wage for any kind of farm labor, based upon the same principles that you would use in fixing the minimum wage in an industrial occupation, which led us into our federal regulation to seventy-five cents an hour, you wouldn't have anything raised in this country. The art and science of agriculture has not developed to a point where it, agriculture, will produce that amount of money. It always has been defended on the theory that it produced a better