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KINROSS. Mr. Tod writes : " Labour at harvest time has 

 declined to a much greater extent than during the rest of the 

 year. Formerly, farmers had to employ many extra hands 

 during harvest ; now, by the aid of binders, they can save the 

 crop with the ordinary farm hands." 



LINLITHGOW. Labourers temporarily employed are stated to 

 have declined to a greater extent than the resident labourers. 

 Mr. Glendinning writes: " Self -delivery reapers and binders 

 and labour-saving implements account for a considerable re- 

 duction of women workers and casual labourers; whilst the 

 system largely adopted of selling potatoes by the acre to 

 merchants, who lift them with their own staff, accounts for 

 a further reduction." 



MIDLOTHIAN. Owing to the use of improved machinery a 

 good deal of labour is now dispensed with at harvest. There 

 is great difficulty in obtaining women workers, but their place 

 is now largely taken by Irishmen who come to thin or single 

 turnips and remain on to the end of harvest or, in some cases, 

 for potato-lifting. 



PEEBLES. Mr. Ritchie thinks that the decline in temporary 

 labour is about the same as in the resident population and 

 has been occasioned by the use of machinery and the high 

 wages expected. 



PERTH. Mr. Craig writes : " The number of labourers tem- 

 porarily employed on the land at particular seasons has pro- 

 bably declined to a greater extent than the resident labourers, 

 as there are now very few extra hands engaged for corn harvest, 

 owing to the advent of the reaper and binder. Only in the 

 case of fruit-picking is there any likelihood of an increase of 

 temporary labour, and whilst this industry is growing in Perth- 

 shire considerably, there is only a small amount of land under 

 fruit in this district." 



ROXBURGH. Owing to the introduction of machinery, notably 

 self-binders, labourers temporarily employed for corn harvest 

 have decreased very greatly. 



SELKIRK. The decrease in labourers temporarily employed 

 for harvest, turnips, &c., is, in Mr. Elliot's view, much greater 

 than in the resident population. He considers the number em- 

 ployed to be 75 or 80 per cent, less than was the case twenty- 

 five years ago, and the decline in the employment of drainers, 

 dykers, &c., is, he states, even more marked. Mr. Linton, who 

 has lived in Peebles and Selkirk for 70 years and farmed for 

 fifty, writes : " Men temporarily employed are nearly all from 

 Ireland, and the season begins in June and July for turnip- 

 work, followed by harvest in August or September, and finish- 

 ing with turnips in November and December. I expect there 

 is little change going on in regard to the numbers employed 

 on turnip work, but in harvest, the use bf self-binders has 

 decreased the number employed." 



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