322 SEVENTH REPORT—1837- 
November 1827, women weeding in fields got ,th of a rupee 
per day, or one penny halfpenny, and worked from sunrise to 
sunset. 
Wages at Kurkumbh.—At Kurkumb, a Jagheer town in the 
Poona collectorate, in December 1827, I found a husbandry 
servant getting only twelve rupees per annum, and food twice a 
day: noclothes. A man watching a field of grain was amonthly 
servant at three rupees a month, without food or clothes. 
Highest Wages at Kurkumh.—From the authorities of the 
town I learned that the highest rate paid for the cleverest 
gardener’s assistant or ploughman was 25 rupees per annum 
and daily food, but without clothes. The monthly rates for 
agricultural servants were from 2% to 3 rupees, without food, 
or clothes, fee, or advantage. 
Pay of Seypoys at Angur.—At Angur, a British town in 
the Poona Collectorate, on the 9th of January, 1828, in looking 
over the village accounts, I found two village seypoys charged 
respectively three rupees and two rupees for a month’s pay. 
Wages of Women Labourers at Poona.—On the 21st July, 
1827, I found a great number of women weeding in gardens in 
the neighbourhood of the city of Poona; they received each 
six pice in money, or ;§,ths of two shillings, (two pence one-third 
per day,) and worked from daylight until dark. This may be 
considered high wages, and its amount is to be attributed to 
the paucity of field labourers in a great city. 
Wages at Pait.—At Pait, a Jagheer town in Pergunnah 
Kheir, in the Poona collectorate, on the 16th February, 1829, 
in my evening excursion, I overtook twelve or fourteen men 
and women with bundles of wheat in the straw on their heads ; 
on inquiry I found they had been employed as labourers in 
pulling up a field of wheat at Pait. Their wages had been five 
sheaves for every hundred gathered ; two or three of the men 
only had got five sheaves each, the majority of them only four, 
and the women none more than three. Five sheaves they said 
would yield about four seers of wheat, and as wheat was 
selling in Pait at 28 seers per rupee, each man with five 
sheaves received for his labour nine pice, or 34d. English. These 
poor people belonged to the town of Owsuree, five miles 
distant from Pait; they had therefore a march of ten miles to 
make besides their day’s labour. 
Wages at Joonur.—At the city of Joonur, at the end of 
February 1829, I found a brahman cultivating the Hubbus 
Baugh (about 80 beegahs of land) ; he employed numerous la- 
bourers. While I was encamped near his garden, fields of wheat, 
and gram, and Booee Moong*, &c. were harvested. For the 
* Earth-nut, Arachis hypogea, 
