OF SCOTCH AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. 1 7 



oatmeal porridge and milk, or potatoes and fish. Dinner with family, oat- 

 meal and potatoes with milk or coffee. Supper with family, oatcake, butter, 

 and tea, or potatoes and milk. Health excellent. 



Remarks. — This is the case of a hind in regular employment, and is a fair 

 specimen of this class in this part of the Island of Skye. 



6. Parish of Bracadale (Skye). Labourer. — A. M'P. Family above 

 ten years of age, 4 ; below, 2. Takes meals at home in winter only, from 

 home from spring till end of harvest. Rent £1. Weekly wages, 15s. ; idle 

 in winter. Wages of family, 2s. 6d. per week all year. Keeps poultry only. 



Breakfast, porridge and milk, when away — at home, potatoes and fish ; of 

 family, potatoes and fish. Dinner, bread and coffee, or bread and cheese 

 and piece of bacon, when away — at home, potatoes ; of family, potatoes. Supper, 

 tea and bread when away — at home, potatoes or meal-brose, sometimes potatoes 

 or fish ; of family, potatoes or meal-brose, sometimes potatoes and fish. 

 Health fair. 



Remarks. — This case rejH'esents the poorest class here. The labourer leaves 

 his home for the south of Scotland in spring, where he is employed from 

 April till end of harvest at any work he can find, generally on railway con- 

 tracts and at harvest work. He returns about end of October. Several of 

 his family are out at service. 



7. Parish op Bracadale (Skye). Labourer. — K. C. Family over ten 

 years, 2 ; below, 4. Takes supper only at home ; on Sundays, takes all his 

 meals at home. Rent, £l, 10s. Weekly wages, 12s. Wages of family, 3s. 

 per week. Keeps pig and poultry. 



Breakfast, potatoes beat, and oatcake or oatmeal brose ; of family, 

 potatoes. Dinner, oatmeal brose, or potatoes and oatcake ; of family, 

 potatoes and fish. Supper with family, tea and oatmeal cake, or coffee and 

 fish. Health — man, scrofulous ; family subject to cutaneous eruptions. 



Remarks — This is the case of a dyker and drainer ; he earns as much as 

 any of his class and occupation, and he lives at home all the year. 



ABERDEENSHIRE. 



8. Parish of Alford. Ploughman. — B. C. Family above ten years of age, 

 1 ; below, 3. Tak vpeals at home. Rent free. Yearly wages, £24. Wages 

 of family, 9s. per wefSF* Keeps pig and poultry. 



Breakfast with family, porridge and milk ; sometimes tea or coffee and 

 bread. Dinner with family, oatmeal brose and milk or vegetable broth and 

 potatoes. Supper with family, bread and beer and cheese, or bread and milk, 

 or potatoes and milk. Health very good. 



Remarks. — The keeping of poultry is often the cause of differences between 

 master and servants, and leads to removal from situations here. A cow is 

 allowed in a few cases. 



9. Parish of Alford. Day Labourer. — D. C. Family above ten years 

 of age, 2 ; below, 2. Takes meals at home. Rent, £3. Weekly wages, 15s. 

 Wages of family, 9s. per week. Keeps pig and poultry. 



Breakfast with family at 6 a.m., porridge and milk ; sometimes tea or coffee 

 with oatcake or wheaten bread, which is now a good deal used. , Dinner with 

 family at 12 noon, oatmeal brose and milk, or potatoes and milk, greens soup 

 made with a small piece of meat occasionally. Supper with family, potato 

 soup, or bread and milk, or bread and tea, or bread and beer with cheese. 

 Health very good. 



Remarks. — The use of butcher meat was increasing a good deal, till the 

 present high price checked it in this district. 



10. Parish of Oyne. Ploughman, — A. B. Unmarried. Takes meals at 

 home. Rent free. Yearly wages, £22. Keeps no cow, pig, or poultry. 



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