18 EEPOET ON THE DIETARIES 



Breakfast, porridge and milk. Dinner, vegetable broth, with potatoes and 

 cheese. Supper, brose or porridge, with milk and oatcakes. Health excellent. 



Remarks. — This is the case of a hind who gets his meals in his master's 

 kitchen. The small farmers here seldom get butcher meat themselves. Some 

 old people who live in cottages on the farms in this district often take oat- 

 cakes and tea to dinner. 



11. Parish of Oynb. Day Labourer. — D. S. Family above ten years, 4. 

 Rent, £2, 15s. Weekly wages, 15s.; wages of family, one at £2, 10s. a-year, 

 two at £4 and £6 a-year. Keeps pig and poultry. 



Breakfast with family, porridge or brose, with milk or beer. Dinner with 

 family, potatoes with turnips or green kail, or porridge and milk. Supper, 

 tea or coffee with oatcakes or loaf-bread ; of family, porridge and milk. 

 Health very good. 



Remarks. — This is the case of a day-labourer. He takes his meals at home 

 daily if working near his house ; if employed at a distance, his meals are car- 

 ried to him by his wife or one of his children. 



12. Parish of Foveran. Ploughman. — W. B. Family above ten years, 

 1 ; below, 6. Rent, £3, including fire. Yearly wages, £12 in money, and 

 6| bolls meal. Keeps cow, pig, and poultry. 



Breakfast with family, oatmeal porridge and milk, or brose and milk. 

 Dinner with famity, oatmeal porridge and milk, or tea and fish and loaf-bread, 

 or potatoes and milk. Supper with family, porridge and milk, or potatoes 

 and milk. Health good. 



Remarks. — When a cow's keep, say £8 per annum, is not allowed, milk 

 from the farm-house is given, value say £4 per annum, the balance going to 

 the ploughman's money wages. 



13 Parish of New Deer. Labourer. — A. D. Family above ten years, 

 3 ; below, 6. Takes meals at home. Rent, £4 per annum. Weekly wages, 

 12s. during winter, 14s. during summer. Keeps no cow, pig, or poultry. 



Breakfast, brose with molasses, or porridge and beer ; of family, porridge 

 and beer. Dinner, potatoes and milk, or sometimes herrings and potatoes, 

 or kail brose, or oatcake and beer ; of family, potatoes and milk. Supper 

 with family, turnip brose or porridge and beer. Health good. 



Remarks. — In this parish agricultural labourers fare very poorly. They 

 sometimes purchase a barrel of the cheaper herrings, to be used with potatoes 

 by the head of the family for dinner. Beef is never seen within their houses, 

 nor is the luxury of tea indulged in. 



14. Parish of St Nicholas. Artisan occupied at Railway and Docks. — 

 W. B. Family above ten years, 1 ; below, 5. Takes meals at home. Rent, 

 £2. Weekly wages, 13s. ; wages of family, 2s. 6d. per week. Keeps no 

 cow, pig, or poultry. 



Breakfast with family, oatmeal porridge and milk. Dinner with family, 

 potatoes with lard, and milk or oatbread. Supper with family, oatmeal por- 

 ridge and milk ; on Sundays, tea and wheaten bread and butter. Health 

 good. 



Remarks. — The diet in this case is rather inferior to and less varied than 

 that of labourers here, but this is doubtless owing to the large family who 

 are depending upon him for support. 



KINCARDINESHIRE. 



15. Parish of Bakchory-Ternan. Ploughman. — W. S. Family above 

 ten years, 1 ; below, 4. Takes meals at home. Rent, £3, 10s. Yearly 

 wages, £17 in money, 6js bolls oatmeal, and 2 pints sweet milk daily. Keeps 

 pig and poultry. 



Breakfast, porridge and milk ; wife, tea and oatcake and butter ; family, 



