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The principal implement, the plough, is a clum- 

 fey piece of work, with a long mafly beam, and an 

 ill formed timber mould-board, better adapted as a 

 machine for 4 or 5 horfes to pull along, than for 

 the purpofe of turning over a neat clean furrow. 

 And it cannot admit of a doubt, but that with a 

 well conftrudled light plough, with a call iron 

 mould- board, (fuch as are common in many parts 

 of England and Scotland), a man wit'h two horfes 

 a-breaft, and without a driver, would do as much 

 work, and to better purpofe, than is here done by a 

 man and a boy, wit)i 3, 4 or 5 horfes ; indeed by 

 the practice of the county, this is clearly admitted, 

 as a double furrow plough, of a fimilar conftruc- 

 tion with the other, is pretty generally ufed, and 

 which does double work with the fame number of 

 horfes. 



LABOURERS, and the price of LABOUR. 



As there are no large manufacturing towns fitu- 

 ated in this diftricl, the variations in the price of la- 

 bour are not confiderable ; and it is, upon the whole, 

 more moderate than could well be expeded. 



The wages of a ploughman by the year, are from 

 L. 8 to L, 10, with board and vvalhing. 

 ■ A young man or boy, from L. 4 to L. 5. 



A female fervant, about L. 4, ic s. 



A labourer in fummer, receives is. 4 d. witboo* 

 board, and in winter 1 s. 



In hay-harveft, a man earns from 9 s. to los. per 

 week, and a woman 4s. without board; th(jugh 

 each is allowed, a certain quantity of beer. 



In corn-harvell, a man hired by the month, re- 

 ceives about L. 2, IDS. befides board ; a woman is 

 paid at the rate of i s. the day without board. 



Wheat 



