farmer. And in the last place, it has this per- 

 nicious tendency, of making an Irish job last as 

 long as possible, as many land-stewards and 

 large farmers no doubt have experienced. 

 Many of the small tenantry who have only a 

 few weeks' employment upon their own holdings, 

 labour under the erroneous impression that 

 large farmers and landlords are in duty bound 

 to supply the remainder, as we have already 

 noticed; and do not hesitate to acknowledge, 

 that they are perfectly justified in eking out a 

 job Avhen in the employment of the latter, if 

 they have any prospect of being turned adrift. 

 In short, parties are mutually jealous of each 

 other. A general distrust on the part of the 

 workmen is fanned into a consuming flame, 

 enervating and unfitting them for laborious 

 exercise. 



We very soon discovered, that by a proper 

 system of management, and the adoption of 

 taskwork, the whole of the operations of the 

 farm could be performed at half the cost by 

 half the number of hands, the workmen at 

 the same time making double wages. In 1843 

 the joint wages of a man and his two sons were 

 145. 6d. weekly, and the average of the last 



