i 4 4 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



farmer, in order to fave provifions, endeavours to get 

 through all, or part of the labouring work, by his 

 own family, which was almoft univerfally the cafe 

 in the years 1800, and i8ol. 



Talk-work, alfo, makes a material change in the 

 price of day labour, as a good labourer can earn 

 more money by the former than by the latter; of 

 courfe, he will prefer the mode, by which he can 

 make molt. 



Farmers generally feed their labourers, and, on that 

 account, the wages are low, commonly fix pence half- 

 penny a day, except in the time of harveft, when they 

 generally get a /hilling a day. But by far the greater 

 number of the farmers get their labour done upon a dif- 

 ferent footing, as the cottiers are obliged to work for 

 them to a certain extent, to pay for .their cot-takes; and 

 the farmers are always fure, that the number of days 

 fpecified muft be ferved in the bufy feafons. Sometimes 

 contracts between farmers and labourers are fo made, 

 as to work a certain number of days in each week, 

 throughout the year, but this mode is not common. 



Either for common labour or talk-work, no regular 

 fteady rules are eftablifhed throughout the couaty, ex- 

 cept in lord Mountjoy's improvements, which ihall be 

 noted in their proper order, when I come to treat of 

 that place. 



The middle prices of provifions for the Lift ten years 

 ending December 1 799, may be ftated as follows. 



Oatmeal 



