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A hearing on migrant tabor was told. Monday that an., increase in tabor costs could ' force apple growers to turd/to mechanical harvesters. - . Dr. Howard A. Rollins Jr., a horticulturist with the Virginia Agricultural Extension Service at Virginia Tech, said much of the mechanical equipment at present “is not practical with the kind of economic structure of the harvest operation.” But, he added, “should tbs cost of harvest tabor increase, such equpiment would likely be readily adopted aa growers Substitute capital for tabor.” Yesterday’s* hearing hr Winchester was called by the U. S. Labor Department in its investigation of whether foreign migrant tabor has an adverse offset on domestic tabor. About M par
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