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SECT. 8.— Bees:

Bees are common in Weſtmoreland, but there is no- thing worthy of remark in the way in which they are( managed,

——PRLE I GES PRE R SEEIRA.e BA' Ls a AL R CEE ae CHAPTER XIF.

RURAL OECONOMYs C

SECT IL— Labour, Servants, Labourers, Hours of Labour.

LABOUR is dearer in Weſtmoreland than it is in ale moſt any of the counties either to the north or ſouth of it. This probably is owing to the great number of ſmall land- holders, or Ffateſmen above-mentioned, who doing the work upon their own eftátes, with their own hands and thoſe of their families, are perhaps difinclined to labour for other people.:

Servants by the yeari—A hind may be hired by the year at twenty pounds, a houſe, a garden, and a patch of ground to grow potatoes; and an unmarried man at írom ten to twelve guineas a-year, and board and waſh= ing.

By the day.—The wages of an ordinary labourer are írom Is. 4d, to 1s, 8d. a-dayz; he begins to work be- tween fix and ſeven, reſts an hour at dinner, and leaves it of between ſix and ſeven in the evening.— The la- bourers on the highway from Shap to Kendall receive

U2 IS. 9d