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cottages for their families work at the coal mines for eleven 

 months and spend the other month with their families, helping 

 in the harvest. 



CARMARTHEN. Temporary labour is thought to have declined 

 similarly to resident labour. Mr. Drummond observes : " Out- 

 side labour was always short, the farmers depending on each 

 others help when necessary." 



CARNARVON. Mr. Roberts writes: "The number of labourers 

 temporarily employed for the corn harvest declined rapidly 

 from 1881 to 1891 and steadily from the latter date to 1898, and 

 since then up to the last harvest they could not be got locally at 

 any price. Now the farmers are dependent upon the men living 

 in the cottages on the farms, or the servants engaged for six 

 months who are single and get their board and lodging on the 

 premises." 



DENBIGH. The decline is believed to have been greater in 

 the case of temporary labourers. Yery few are now required 

 except for corn harvest. 



GLAMORGAN. Extra labourers when wanted are very difficult 

 to obtain. Yery few, however, are now employed, the hay 

 and corn crops being secured with the aid of machinery. Mr. 

 Forrest writes : " Each binder saves eight men and each trusser 

 four; there is also the hay-loader, pitch-fork, and swath- 

 turner, all have lessened the demand for casual labour at 

 harvest time. Labour on root-hoeing, too, is less." 



MERIONETH. Labourers for corn harvest have declined, as a 

 good deal of land has been laid down to grass. 



MONTGOMERY. Temporary labourers have probably declined 

 in about the same ratio as the resident population. These 

 occasional hands for hay and corn harvest, turnip-hoeing, &c., 

 have been displaced by the more frequent use of .machinery. 



PEMBROKE. The use of implements and machinery, espe- 

 cially in hay and corn harvest, has become so general, that 

 these are now looked upon as little more than the ordinary 

 work of the farm, and require but a small amount of outside 

 help. The decline in temporary labourers is stated to have 

 been much less during the last ten years than during the 

 previous ten. 



