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At Koenigsheiden, Presburg, a labouring man, when paid in money alone, 

 receives Is. lOjd in summer, and ll\d- in winter. A woman receives Hid. 

 in summer, and Qid. in winter. A head shepherd has 8?. per annum in 

 money, with 61 bushels of wheat, 33"8 bushels of rye, 6f bushels of barley, 

 200 faggots of wood, 36 lbs. of salt, ^V^is of an acre of land, keep of one cow, 

 and pasture for pigs. ^ Shepherds and cattlemen are paid with trifling varia- 

 tions as at Tarnok. Similar payment is made on the estates of Boleraa, 

 Szuha, Pudmeritz, Szilard, and Bosing. All of these estates are owned by 

 Count John Palfty. 



" On Count Esterhazy's estates of Talcs and Lanschiitz, also in Upper 

 Hungary, a man's average wage is estimated at Is. 2^d. per day, and his 

 summer's wage ranges as high as 2s. ocZ. A woman's wage is lOd. Shep- 

 herds and cattlemen are considered to receive in cash and commodities 201, per 

 annum. 



Upon Count Be'la Sze'chenyi's property at Zinkendorf, near Oildenburg, a 

 man's wage is equal to Is. 8d per day, and a woman has Hid. per day 

 throughout the year. Here also the system of payment in kind obtains, but I 

 did not receive particulars. 



Further south, at Wittendorf, half an hour's drive to the east of Steina- 

 manger Pailway Station, lie the house and estate of Count Alexander Erdody. 

 Here a labourer receives 2s. per day for mowing, and a woman Is. 2c?. for light 

 work. Calculating the various perquisites at a money-value, a cattleman was 

 estimated to receive 23/. 10s., and a shepherd 211. 10s., besides lodging, per 

 annum. 



Count Heinrich Zichy furnished particulars as to his payment of farm- 

 servants at Nikics, in ffidenburg Comitat, on the slopes of the boundary 

 mountains, and three English miles from the South Eailway Station of Zinkei>- 

 dorf. Men in summer receive from Is. Qd. to 2s. bd., and in winter from \0d. 

 to Is. O^d. AVomen receive lOd. to Is. O^d., and M. to lid. respectively in 

 summer and winter. All the harvest work, except what a single reaping- 

 machine cuts, is done by labourers for one-twelfth part of the entire crop : 

 that is, every twelfth stock belongs to the harvesters, and is threshed out, the 

 straw remaining ibr the benefit of the estat*. The male harvesters engage 

 themseves to come for day-work whenever wanted, throughout the year, lor 

 lOjC?. per diem. The shepherd and two assistants on the same estate are paid 

 in the following complicated manner : — 



£10 in money. 



45 lbs. of bacon. 

 180 ,, of salt. 



9^ , , of candles. 



19 gallons of wine. 

 1-4223 acres of land. 

 Keep of one cow. 



25^ bushels of wheat. 

 50-7 , , of rye. 

 10 , , of barley. 

 1"69 , , of peas or beans. 



4 cord of wood. 

 180 lbs. of meat (paid in money). | 



A teamsman on the same estate has 

 4Z. 12s. 



17 bushels of wheat. 

 27 , , of rye. 



M. Otocska, also near Zinkendorf, estimated his wage as follows, including 

 all perquisites: — 



Men in winter 



, , , , summer 

 Women in winter . . 

 , , , , summer 



Shepherds 



Teamsmen 



•84 bushels of peas. 



2 cord of wood. 

 -,-^ths acre of land. 



