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way of life. Of course, with the coming in of the factories into the fields. It may be that it's not producing a better way of life. But that's always been the theory.

However, certainly it has not developed to the point where you could guarantee a minimum wage of a seventy-five cents an hour. Are you going to fix a wage for farm laborers lower than the lowest pecan shelling or laundry stamper? It would be ridiculous to try to do it lower. You get the problem of semantics, of the mere word “wage.” Immediately, you get comments like” If I'm going to get a wage, I'm going to get as good a wage as that colored girl who stamps the laundry. I do very necessary work. The world couldn't eat without the food that I raise.” On the other hand, if you fix that, the enterprise couldn't produce that amount in cash wages.

So I decided very early that it ought to be treated as an agricultural problem, that agriculture ought to be kept separate from industry. I realize that in some practices they are growing more like each other. By this scientific utilization of land, the utilizing of different fertilizers, the organizing of the work so that you have the canning or processing following directly to the heels of the growing, agriculture is become more like an industrial pattern. I still think it has to be handled as an agricultural problem.