292 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

Is, 9d. a-day for nine months in the year, and Is. óds a-day for the other three monthe.

By the menth.—On the large farms, in the ſeaſons of hay and harveſt, it is not unuſual to hire labourers by the month of ſour weeks, at the rate of il, 12s. 6d. and victuals. They breakfaſt on milk- pottage, and bread and cheeſe, receive a pint of good beer in the forenoon, and another in the afternoon; they dine on meat boiled, ba- Ked, or roaßted, and potatoes or pudding; ſup’on cold meat, and have plenty of common beer to drink through the day. They begin in the morning as ſoon as the corn is dry, reſt none but while at meals, and continue as late as they can ſee to work. Four men may cut, tie, and ſtook a cuſtomary acre in a day, leaving a ſtubble from nine to fourteen inches in length,

“ Cutting of corn per acre.—When done by the piece, the cutting of an acre by the fickle, the ſcythe not being uſed in the reaping of any ſort of grain, may coſt 9s. and if the crop be very heavy, 1ôs, or even 10s. ód.

Cutting of hay per acre.— The price of mowing a cuſ tomary acre of graſs varies from 2s. ód. to 3s 6d, and a man uſually mows an acre in a day.

Per day.— When hired by the day, a mower’s wages may vary from 1s. 4d. to 1s. 10d. and viCtuals.

Maſon's wagesr-—Meaſons in ſummer have from 2s. 2d. to 25. 6d. a-day, or Is. 2d, or Ts. 6d.‘and viCtuals;‘and in winter 4d. or 6d. leſs. At Millthrope a few are hired all the year at 1s. 10d. a-day, wet or dry. When they do gheir work by the piece, and furniſh every thing, they are paid 2s, or 2s. 6d, a ſquare yard for a wall of two feet in thickneß built with lime; if materials are furniſh- ed to their hand, they are paid 8d. or 10d. a-yard. Se- ven yards and a half in length of a dry ſtone wall, five feet and a half in height, coft 1s, ód. or 18, 8d« in build- ing,

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