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18 lbs.; oatmeal, 15 lbs.; fish, 1 lb.; meat, 3 lbs.; bacon, 1 lb.; butter, 

 1 lb. 4 ozs. ; cheese, 1 lb. ; sugar (or treacle), 1 lb. 6 ozs. ; green vegetables, 

 3 lbs. ; potatoes, 16 lbs. ; tea, 3 ozs. Total, 60 lbs. 13 ozs. Milk, 11 pints ; 

 soup or broth, 9 pints imperial. Total, 20 pints imperial. 



Remarks. — The quantities may vary slightly with the season of the year, . 

 but they are a fair specimen of the mode of living in this locality. 



This family may be taken as three adults in all. 



Abstract. — 47,286j grs. carbon, 2068J grs. nitrogen. Total, 49,354§ grs. 

 per week per adult. 



HADDINGTONSHIRE. 



43. Parish of Haddington. J. R. — Description of Food, — Labourer: 

 Breadstuff's (including bread, rice, flour, barley, pease, &c), 4 lbs. ; oatmeal, 

 7 lbs. ; fish, 1 lb. ; bacon, 2 lbs. ; butter, 8 ozs. ; cheese, 4 ozs. ; sugar (or 

 treacle), 4 ozs. ; green vegetables, 3 lbs. ; potatoes, 22 lbs. ; tea, 1 oz. Total, 

 41 lbs. 1 oz. Milk, 7 pints ; soup or broth, 10 pints ; beer (in harvest only), 

 7 quarts imperial. Total, 7 quarts 17 pints imperial. Family: breadstuff's 

 as a hove, 6 lbs. ; oatmeal, 20 lbs. ; fish, 1 lb. ; bacon, 3 lbs. ; butter, 1 lb. ; 

 cheese, 6 ozs. ; sugar (or treacle), 1 lb. ; green vegetables, 8 lbs. ; potatoes, 

 78 lbs. ; tea, 2 ozs. Total, 120 lbs. 8 ozs. Milk, IS pints ; soup or broth, 

 25 pints imperial. Total, 43 pints imperial. 



Remarks. — Occasionally a quartern-loaf is used, but generally scones of fine 

 flour ; sometimes, but rarely, barley-and-pease meal. Herrings, salt, fresh, or 

 dried only, used generally. Meat very rarely indulged in. Pig killed twice 

 a-year, and all used in the house. Butter is sparingly used ; bacon gravy 

 used instead of it. 



Family taken as labourer and four adults. 



Abstract. — Labourer, 63,659 grs. carbon, 2627 grs. nitrogen. Total, 

 66,386 grs. Family per adult, 41,217| grs. carbon, 1322 grs. nitrogen. 

 Total, 42,539f grs. per week. 



Note. — During the five weeks of harvest, the hind, and those of his family 

 who choose to work, have porridge and milk twice a-day, and bread and beer 

 once. The boys who work get men's meals and boys' wages ! 



In this instance there is abundance of milk, as a cow is kept by the family ; 

 but in the majority of EastLotbian cases no cow is now allowed to be kept by 

 the hinds, and where this occurs, add £6 to the money wages per annum. 



PEEBLESSHIRE. 



44. Parish of Eddleston. D. B. — Description of Food. — Labourer and 

 Family : Breadstuffs (including bread, rice, flour, barley, pease, &c), 9 lbs. ; 

 oatmeal, 24 lbs. ; bacon, 2 lbs. ; butter, 8 ozs. ; cheese, 2 ozs. ; sugar (or 

 treacle), 1 lb. 8 ozs. ; potatoes, 14 lbs. ; tea, 2 ozs. Total, 51 lbs. 4 ozs. 

 Milk, 22 pints ; soup or broth, 12 pints imperial.- Total, 34 pints imperial. 



Remarks. — Family taken as 2h adults in all. 



Abstract.— 41,906f grs. carbon, 2246| grs. nitrogen. Total, 44,153^ grs. 

 per week per adult. 



ROXBURGHSHIRE. 



45. Parish of Castleton. R. N. — Desertion of Food. — Labourer and 

 Family: Breadstuffs (including bread, rice, flour, barley, pease, &c), 21 lbs. ; 

 oatmeal, 14 lbs. ; bacon, 3 lbs. ; butter, 1 lb. ; cheese, 8 ozs. ; sugar (or 

 treacle), 1 lb. ; potatoes, 28 lbs. ; tea, 2 ozs. Total, 68 lbs. 10 ozs. Milk, 21 

 pints ; soup or broth, 14 pints imperial. Total, 35 pints imperial. 



Remarks. — Family taken as three adults in all. 



Abstract. — 45,750^- grs. carbon, 1851^ grs. nitrogen. Total, 47,602 grs. 

 per week per adult. 



