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National Geographic : 1920 Mar
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MASSACHUSETTS-BEEHIVE OF BUSINESS Photograph by Leon H. Abdalian FILLING TUBES WITH TOOTH PASTE: MASSACHUSETTS The big containers are full of paste. Each girl can fill io,ooo tubes a day. Everywhere one goes in the Bay State labor-saving machinery is in evidence. Yet everywhere the more labor is saved the more work there is for labor to do. the corn and wheat find a place to grow. Some of these stone fences are so thick that a carriage and pair could drive along the tops. THE FARMER'S LOSING BATTLE For more than two centuries the sturdy yeomen of Massachusetts waged an ag gressive battle against the forests to ob tain room for their crops. Then, in 1850, came a stalemate, and for thirty years the battle line between the field and the forest showed a little wavering, but no real change. But when it seemed that a draw was the inevitable end of the struggle a new ally appeared on the side of the forest. High wages and short hours for labor in urban industries began to cause whole sale desertion from the forces of the farm. Then the line wavered and broke; in 205
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