The average labor income of 965 farmers in Black Hawk, Grundy and Tama counties in 1913 was 306andthereturnoninvestment4.1percent.Inthesameareatheaveragelaborincomeof210farmersin1918was1,382 and the return on investment 6.3 percent. War prices for farm products were the cause for the larger labor incomes the latter year.
Thirty-five percent of the farmers in 1913 and 19.2 percent in 1918 had minus labor incomes; 4.3 percent of the farmers in 1913 and 33.6 percent in 1918 had labor incomes of $2,000 and over