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of the young plantations * and, though large quantities 

 are annually difpofed of otherwife, yet a great deal of 

 the moft inferior fort remains for this purpofe. When- 

 ever the brufh-wood becomes a nuifance, it is difpofed 

 of, as above ftated ; but the months of Auguft and Sep- 

 tember are thofe preferred for filling pits or hollow 

 parts, on account of the autumnal floods prevailing at, 

 or fhortly after> thofe times. 



SECT. 8. An Account of Tajk t or Piece-ivorl, together 

 with a comparifon between it and common Day Labour t 

 withfome remarks on labouring Tools and Implements, 



UNDER the head, Wages y &c., fome remarks have 

 been already made} but I could find nothing like a 

 regular ftandard throughout the county,by which any 

 material knowledge might be obtained, except at Rafh, 

 which here I fhall briefly ftate, and it may be de- 

 pended on, as an accurate report. 



At Rafti, where common labour rates at 8<7. a day 

 the year round, a (hilling is confidered a fair allowance 

 to make for talk-work upon the average of the whole 

 year. la the winter feafon a labourer generally 

 makes as much by day's work as by tafk-work , but 

 in fnmmer there is no comparifon at all, that fca- 

 fan being fo favourable to the latter. But with 



tafk- 



