450 On the Cost of Horse-poicer. 



I give the calculations in this case in detail, but the reader 

 must be left to work it out for himself in the other instances : — 



(11.) " The plou2;limen now are paid 2s. a-day. Of course their wages fluc- 

 tuate according to the price of provisions. They generally get an advance of 

 2s. per week for four weeks during haymaking, and they are paid 20s. a-wcek 

 for a month during the corn harvest ; and they have the privilege of working 

 by contract whenever opportunity offers during hay-time or harvest. It will 

 not, therefore, be fair at such times to charge the whole of their wages to tlie 

 cost of horsekeeping." 



(13.) " Three of the ploughmen are paid lis. a-week, and receive 36s. extra 

 for harvest. Two boys get 7s. a-week, and about 15s. extra for harvest work. 

 No beer or extras of any kind beyond the wages. The carters groom but dtt 

 not feed their horses : a regular horse-feeder is kept, who employs about half 

 Ills time at this work, and is paid 12s. per week, and 32s. extra for harvest 

 work." 



(14.) " The general wage of a full ploughman has been for the last few years 

 15s. or 16s. a-week, with from 2 to 4 bushels of wheat, the same of barley, 80 

 stones of potatoes, and a house free, and cartage of coals. He is bound to 

 supply a woman-worker at Is. a-day in summer, Is. Q>d. in harvest, and lOd. 

 in winter. Some men get less and some few more than this : my own wages 

 are 15s., with the lesser quantities of corn." 



(15.) " The ploughman's wage is 12s. a-week, with a free house." 



(16.) " We pay our ploughman 10s. a-week — extra in harvest." 



(17.) " The wages of the ploughmen are from 12s. to 14s. a-week." 



(18.) " My horsekeeper's wage is 12s. a-weck ; my imder ditto and plough- 

 men from 8s. to 10s., with doxible wages for the harvest month." 



(19.) " The wages of the ploughmen are above the common rate of the neigh- 

 l)Ourhood : they receive lis. M. in money, besides beer and extra money in 

 harvest, also a house and garden worth 5/. a-year." 



(21.) " Ploughmen get 8s. 6c/'. a-week." 



(22.) " Carters 15s. a-week (no perquisites). Young men and boys hired 

 by the year, from 5s. to 9s. a-week." 



(23.) " One man and boy are allowed to a team of four horses. The plough- 

 men's wages are from 8s. to 9s. per week, with house, garden, fuel, and 20 

 jierches of potato ground, and Is. for every journey above six miles from the 

 farm." 



(24.) " Carters' wages 15s. a-week, including rent, fuel, beer, and indul- 

 gences." (Boys' wages not stated.) 



(25.) " We have no hiring of servants, but our ploughmen are ordinary 

 labourers, taking the ordinary wages — ^just now 10s. per week ; when corn is 

 dearer, 12s. a-week." 



(26.) " The wage of the ploughman is usually Is. a-week and a house rent- 

 free more than the ordinary labourer. For 4 weeks during harvest they have 

 double wages. Their wages for the year, including rent of house, would 

 amount to 357. noiv.^' 



(27.) " The waggoners have 2s. a-week more than the labourers, who are 

 now paid lis. a-week. The second man has Is. less than the waggoner, and 

 both have 21. 10s. for harvest. The ' all-works ' have 10s. per week all the 

 year round. The boys have 7s. per week for board, and Q>1. wages." (Four 

 horses to a team.) 



(28.) " The ploughmen are engaged by the year, and the money wages, with 

 allowance of provisions (valued at wholesale prices), amount to 30?. per anmim, 

 besides a cottage on the farm." 



(29.) " Ploughmen about 12s. a-week." 



