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scour up a ditch and bank— 0 6 per pole.

Give no faggots, but allow a sixth ofthe earnings for it.

Under ditching, three feet deep— 0 4 per rod.

The wages of yearly servants are, of course, different, accord- ing to the abilities of the person employed. A carter, however, has never more than(10 a year, and is reduced from that, down to; which is the lowest wages, I understand, a man of that

5 occupation takes. Stout plough-boys have- 2 a year, and smaller ones[1. 105. Shepherds have ten guineas a year given them, and the run of two sheep.

Some few farmers in this county, pay their labourers in kind; viz. with wheat and barley, when they choose to take it;— a prac- tice highly laudable, and deserving particular attention.

The Poors Rate is very moderate, in most parts of the county: not above 2s5. 6d. in the pound, upon an average; except at New- bury, where it is now so high as nine shillings in the pound, upon the rack rent. But this, may in some measure, be accounted for, by the failure of the manufactory of broad cloth, which is now at a very low ebb; and, as the parish is small, and the population great, unless some new branch of trade is struck out, for the em- ployment of the poor, the land-owners in this parish, will lose half the income of their property, by the decline of the manu- factory.

OB8SERVATIONsS.

There is no subject, which deserves the serious consideration of all persons concerned in landed property, more, than the State of our Peasantry.— At present, they are too much left to the ma- nagement and controul of the farmer, whose situation being only temporary, is too often induced to consider them merely as in-

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