STATISTICAL SURVEY 



their own; fo many days worl^ given for a certain 

 cjua.ntity of ready prepared ground. 



The ufual wages in this county, for occafional la- 

 bourers in winter, are fixpence-halfpenny per day and 

 djet; in fumrner eight pence and ditto. Gentlemen pay 

 from eight pence to nine pence per day through the 

 year, befides giving a houfe at a reafonable rate often 

 into the bargain. There is not much work done by 

 the great; ditches are more frequently contracted for in 

 this way than any other kind of labour; a ditch of five 

 feet by four, from fifteen pence to eighteen peace ; of 

 five feet by fix, from eighteen pence to two /hillings; 

 where the ground is rocky, it is difficult to Tay what it 

 may coft per perch of feven yards, which is the ufual 

 running meafure for, making a ditch of either of thofe 

 dimenfions; where rock intervenes, the employer muft 

 agree by the day. 



DAILY WAGES ARE, 



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for turf-catting, i i and diet; i j% without it. 

 Baking turf; baker, 2 2 attendant i 7$. without diet. 

 Boys wheeling, o 6\ to 'o 8 

 Reaping, from o 6| to 08 with diet j it. id. 



without it. 



Mowing, from i 7J to 2 8 1 about towns, 

 Ditto, by the acre, 36 to 40 

 Threftiing oats,, i i per bole of 10 bufhels Winchef. 

 njtto barley, i i per eight buftiels.. 



Reaping 



