WAGES RENT 39 



some co-operative system in production as in sale 

 is everywhere obvious. 



There are good auction marts at Hawes and 

 Hellifield, but the young stock are largely bought 

 by dealers from the fattening districts. 



Labour. 



Wages are high, averaging l a week. No man 

 will work for less than 3s. a day. On the largest 

 farms the men live in, getting up to 25 to 30 

 a year. There does not seem much difficulty in 

 getting labour for harvest. Fewer Irishmen come 

 than formerly, but there appears to be a general 

 practice for men out of the manufacturing towns of 

 Yorkshire to come down to their native places for 

 a few weeks at harvest time. 



Price of Land, Rent, etc. 



While there are a certain amount of small 

 freeholds, the land is nearly all held under large 

 landowners. Land sold of late years shows an 

 average of 100 for good land down to 25 for 

 poor. Some good accommodation land near Hawes 

 sold last year at the rate of 140 an acre ; and an 

 estate in the same district, made up of 13 acres of 

 good land and 16 of bad, had been lately sold for 

 2,000. 



A fair amount of land comes into the market, 

 but prices are falling. A small place in Carperby 

 of 17 acres, which was worth 1,000 a few years 

 ago, had been bought in, last year (1904), at 650 ; 



