OF WESTMORELAND, i 2023

Carpenter's wages.—The wages of a carpenter or com- mon country wright, differ very little from thoſe of a

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Threfher.—A farmer's own ſervants generally threſh out the corn: When perſons are hired for this purpoſe, they receive about 1s. for threſhing a load of ſeven and a half buſhels of oats, and 1s. 3d. for that of barley; and from 4d. to 8d. a boll of rye, confiſting of two Wincheſ- ter buſhels.

Miller.—Farmers commonly have their meal made from oats of their own growing. The nauiller receives 4d. a- load for drying the oats. If they are good in quality, a load of ſeven and a half buſhels will yield 176 pounds of meal,‘beſides paying the miller his toll for grinding, which is gueſſed to be about four per cent. Wheat 1s made into flour for 4d. a-buſhel. Numberleſs ſtreams rendering the precarious afliſtance of windmills unneceflary, there is but one in the county, and it is employed in grinding bark for the tanners at Kendall,)

Thatcher.— A thatcher receives about 1s: 4d. a-day and viQuals, or 2s. 4d. without viduals,

Slater.—Slating is meaſured by the rood of forty-two and one-fourth ſquare yards, and coſts in the workman- ſhip 12s. or 13s. a rood: In the vicinity of the ſlate quar- ries, the ſlater will find all materials and labour for 45s. or 50s. a-rood,

Tailor—A tailor gets in ſome places 10d; in others Is, a-day and board,

Mole catcher.— The mole-hills are carefully ſpread in moſt parts of the county, and the fields are cleared of moles at the rate of 3d. an acre where they have not been catched before; 2d, an acre are paid the ſecond year, and a penny or three half-pence yearly thereafter»

Maid: ſervants by the year.—In ſome farmers’ families, where they are hard worked, maid-ſervants receive 61, a-

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