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__ Day labourers, when paid in cash, get 14 anna per day, or 
3 of two shillings, (about two pence farthing,) supplying them- 
selves with every thing: but day labourers are never paid in 
money unless when grain is very dear. 
é _ Quantity given. — The most usual plan in harvesting crops 
ods to give each labourer three sheaves of whatever grain he is 
cutting down ; and provided he ties up the sheaves and stacks 
them, he gets five sheaves a day. 
Value of Wages in Kind, converted into Money.—The grain 
in five sheaves, in ordinary seasons, amounts to about two seers. 
At the price of Bajree*, in March 1827, at Nandoor, namely 42 
seers per rupee, the value of the labour was one penny and {;4,ths 
per day. Joareet, at 56 seers per rupee, was ;5;>ths of a penny 
per day, or rather more than three farthings, Wheat, at 18 
seers per rupee, would have been two pence ;65,, or something 
less than two pence three farthings per day. Allowing the 
grain in five bundles to be double the quantity stated, which is 
rather possible than probable, the highest wages in harvesting 
_ wheat would not have been five pence halfpenny per diem. 
_ When men are employed in ploughing or harrowing, nine 
times out of ten, they are paid two seers of Bajree for their day’s 
_ work, from daylight to night, allowing one hour for dinner. 
_ At Kanoor.—At Kanoor, a town in Jagheer, Ahmednuggur 
 collectorate, in March 1827, I found that the two Pateels had 
_ each a permanent domestic servant in his employ; one paid 
_ his man 15 rupees per annum and his food; the other gave 
15 rupees per annum, food, and five articles of wearing 
_ apparel, the value of which was 33 rupees. 
_ Wages at Dywuree.—At Dywuree, Nuggur collectorate, 
_ in November 1826, the cultivators did not pay their day- 
labourers in money, but gave them five sheaves of grain for 
_ every hundred cut down; a very able man indeed might cut 
down two hundred sheaves in a day, which would give him 
four seers of grain, the value of which (Bajree) in November, 
1826, was about ;%,ths of a rupee, or three pence English. 
| Wages at Dytna.—At Dytna, Nuggur collectorate, in Fe- 
_bruary 1827, I found a man getting 25 rupees per annum, 
his food and a blanket, his son being also in employ at six 
‘Tupees a year, food and clothes; but this was looked upon as 
high, and the individuals getting such wages fortunate: the 
village belonged to a Gosawee ¢ who paid his people well. 
| Wages of Women Day Labourers. — At Chambergoondeh, 
a large town belonging to Seendeh, Nuggur collectorate, in 
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V4 * Properly, Sujgooreh, Panicum spicatum. 
____ t Properly, Jondleh, Andropogon Sorghum. t Gosawee, a religieux, 
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