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Scarcity of labor.

--Accounts from Jefferson county, Va., represent the wheat crop there as the most luxuriant for many years, but that a small portion only will be saved in consequence of the scarcity of labor. In many instances the ladies have gone into the harvest field to secure as much of the crop as possible.

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