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General view of the agriculture of the county of Somerset : with observations on the means of its improvement. Drawn up in the year 1795, for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. By John Billingsley, Esq; ... and now re-printed with considerable additions and amendments, .. / John Billingsley
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294 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

CHAPTER XII. RURAL ŒCONOMY.

É F price of labour, throughout the whole dißri<t, is nearly the ſame, viz. Men, through the year, one ſhil- ling per day and beer; women, for weeding and common work, ſix-pence per day; and for mattocking the wheat and. hay-making, eight-pence per day. But contrad labour is gaining ground daily; and in this way men will earn four-

pence or ſix-pence per day more than at day-Wwork.

PROVISIONS.

The price of proviſions is comparatively moderate. In Taunton the beſt beef, mutton, veal, and lamb, may be had by agreement with the butchers, at four-pence per pound the winter, and three-pence halfpenny the ſummer half year; turkey, three ſhillings and ſix-pence; gooſe, three ſhillings; ducks, two ſhillings and ſix-pence a couple; and fowls, two ſhillings; fiſh, at certain times, very cheap.

N.B. This was in 1794-

FUEL.

Coal is brought from Wales. The quality bad, and the. price high. Wood gets ſcarcer and dearer every year.

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