OF SCOTCH AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. 19 



porridge and milk. Dinner with family, potatoes with broth or pork, and 

 milk and bread. Slipper with family, porridge and milk, or tea and bread 

 and butter. Health good. 



16. Parish of Durris. Ploughman. — J. A. Family above ten years, 2; 

 below, 4. Takes meals at home. Rent, £3. Yearly wages, ,£17 in money, 

 (>i bolls oatmeal, and 2 pints sweet milk daily. Keeps pig and poultry. 



Breakfast, porridge and milk, or porridge and treacle ; wife, tea and bread 

 and butter ; family, porridge and milk, or porridge and treacle. Dinner with 

 family, pork broth and potatoes, or fish and potatoes, or milk and potatoes. 

 Supper with family, potatoes and milk, or greens and tea and bread. Health 

 very good. 



PERTHSHIRE. 



17. Parish of Crieff. Ploughman. — P. R. Family above ten years, 3 ; 

 below, 2. Takes meals at home. Rent free, worth £6. Yearly wages, £27. 

 Wages of family, two sons out at trades, who dine at home on Sundays. 

 Keeps no cow, pig, or poultry. 



Breakfast with family, porridge and milk ; wife takes tea and bread and 

 butter. Dinner with family, potatoes and broth, and boiled meat, of which 

 broth is made, or herrings and potatoes, or dried white fish and potatoes ; 

 sometimes cheese and bread, and potatoes. Tea, wife takes tea. bread and 

 butter. Supper with children, porridge and milk, or ham and potatoes and 

 milk. Health good. 



Remarks. — This is the case of a foreman ploughman, and thus above the 

 average. Deduct £5 from the yearly wages, and the case is an average one. 



18. Parish of Crieff. Day labourer. — J. C. Family above ten years, 2 ; 

 below, none. Takes meals at home. Rent, £4. Weekly wages, 12s. Keeps 

 no cow, pig, or poultry. 



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

 meat used in it, say pork or beef, and potatoes and bread. Tea, only wife 

 takes tea and bread and butter. Supper with family, cheese with bread and 

 milk and butter. Health good. 



Remarks. — This is the dietary of an ordinary day labourer, i.e., a man 

 working daily on the farm, but not fed in the farmer's house, and having no 

 allowance, nor a house, nor living in a bothy. Such usually live in a cottage, 

 for which they pay a yearly rent. 



19. Parish of Muckart. Ploughman. — P. W. Family above ten years, 

 2 ; below, 3. Takes meals at home. Rent free. Yearly wages, £19 in 

 money ; meal, £6 ; potatoes, £2 ; milk, £1, 10s. — in all, £28, 10s. Cow, pig, 

 or poultry, none. 



Breakfast with family, porridge and milk. Dinner, broth of vegetables, 

 bread and cheese or bread and bacon ; family, broth and bread and butter. 

 Tea with family, tea with bread and butter. Supper with family, porridge 

 with treacle or milk. Health excellent. 



FIFESHIRE. 



20. Parish of Saline. Ploughman.' — R. K. Family above ten years, 3 ; 

 below, 1. Takes meals at home. Rent, £4. Yearly wages, £29, 17s. Family 

 all at service. Keeps a pig. 



Breakfast with family, porridge and milk, rarely tea and bread and butter. 

 Dinner with family, broth and bacon and potatoes, or cheese, milk, and pota- 

 toes. Tea with family, tea with bread and butter. Supper with family; only 

 in winter takes supper, potatoes, cheese, and milk. Health excellent. 



Remarks. — Wages stated include the value of meal, milk, and potatoes. 

 The ploughman's statutory allowance in this district of articles paid in kind 

 is — 6h bolls meal per annum, 1 pint sweet milk daily or three chopins 



