Excerpt from Child Labor in Fruit and Hop Growing Districts of the Northern Pacific Coast

The plan of the stud is similar to that of other rural studies made by the bureau, severa school districts in each area bein selected for intensive survey.1 After the names of the children enrol ed in the schools had been obtained a house-to - house canvass was made, and interviews were held with local children under 16 years of age who had worked on fruit or hop crops at least 12 days during the previous 12 months and with migratory children under 16 who had worked at least 6 days.2 Representative berry ranches, orchards, and hop yards in the school districts selected and in their vicinity were also visited, and owners and managers, as well as local and migratory families emplo ed, were interviewed. No estimate as to the number of migratory cliildren engaged in harvesting in the two areas could be obtained. Detailed information was Obtained for migratory children, who represented only a; small proportion of those working in the selected areas, but all the children whose homes were in the selected school districts were interviewed. All the school children under 16 years living in the three districts selected for study who had worked on farms at least 12 days during the preceding year were included in the study. These children (797) re resented from one third to two-thirds of all the school children uh er 16 living in these districts. The stud was made during the harvest seasons: In the Puyallup Valley in uly, during the raspberry season; in the Yakima' Valley in August and September, when eaches, pears, and hops were being picked; and in the Willamette Va ey in September, during the prune and hop harvests.

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