NOTICES RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



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The following table shows for the three years 1914 (before the war) 1915 

 and 1916 and the district under consideration the average wages of per- 

 sons lodged and fed and otherwise, paid by the day, the month and the 

 piece, and employed on the special works of dressing and uprooting 

 beetroot and of the hay and corn-harvests. 



These wages are paid in the three departments within the district 

 considered. It should be remembered that in Seine wages are generally 

 higher and in Seine-et-Marne lower than in Seine-et-Oise, where they 

 reach an intermediary level. 



Agriadiural Wages in the District of Paris. 



Class of Labourer 



Employees neither lodged 

 nor fed 



Francs (i) 



1915 



1916 



Employees lodged 

 aud fed 



1914 



1915 



1916 



Journeymen 



Workmen 



Mechanics 



Threshers 



Smiths, harness- makers, wheel-wrights 



Harvesters . 

 Mowers . . 

 Ha%Tnakers . 



Farm clerks 

 Ploughmen . 

 Cattle herds 

 Shepherds . 

 Cowmen . . 



Farm servants 



Men . . 

 Women 



Dressing beetroot 



Uprooting beetroot ....'. 



Mowing 



Harvest {reaping and binding) 



Daily 



II 



10 



6 



Daily Wages, 

 6 2 



550 2 

 8.50 

 6.50 

 7-50 

 Wages for Special Work. 



230 

 150 



140 

 140 



145 



130 



90 



Wages for 



3-50 

 3 



210 

 100 



90 



85 

 85 

 80 

 60 



Piece-Work per Hectare (2) 



(i) I franc = 9 3/5 d. at par (2) i hectare = 2.47 acres. 



