I06 NOTICES RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



These results, which were obtained by a correspondence with persons in 

 the industry, should be regarded only as giving the averages obtaining in 

 the Paris district. In manj^ cases the wages in use are above, or below those 

 in the table. 



For a working day the wages given as those of the employees who are 

 fed are generally less by from 2.50 to 3 francs than those of similar labourers 

 finding their Own food. It is none the less true that the cost of food rose 

 progressively from 2.50 francs to 3.50 francs and more for one working 

 day between 1914 and 1916. 



A comparison between daily and monthly wages in 1916 and 1914 

 shows a general increase of about 33 per cent. 



If the diminution already cited in average production be taken into 

 account, it appears that the real wages of agricultural labour have increas- 

 ed by about two thirds during the present war. 



This is also the rate at which the wages of piece-work, mowing and 

 harvesting, and in many cases those of dressing and uprooting beetroot, 

 have increased. 



In the Paris district the wages of military labourers — that is of men 

 on leave or belonging to estabhshments — are as follows : 



Balance (every rank) 0.25 francs 



Indemnity for clothes 0.25 



» » labour 1.65 



2.15 francs, 



that is 5.15 francs with food which can be valued, on an average, at 

 3 francs a day. 



This rise in the price of labour is certainly the chief factor which has 

 raised the price of the various agricultural products, as the scarcit}^ of 

 labour is chiefl}'- responsible for the progressive diminution of agricultural 

 production. 



GREAT BRITAIN AND IRKLAND. 



WOIVCEN WORKERS ON THE FARM. — Agricultural Gazette, London, Vol. LXXXIV, 

 No. 2243, 25 December 1916. 



The suitability of women to perform many of the branches of farm 

 and horticultural work was recognized at an early date of the war, and in 

 order to promote their employment special steps were taken by the Board 

 of Trade, acting in conjunction with the Board of Agriculture. The pro- 

 gress made in the substitution of women for men in agriculture has been 

 slow, and is in no way commensurate with that achieved in industrial 



