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KIRKCUDBRIGHT.^^ Biggar states tliat the number of Temporary 

 labourers temporarily employed for harvest or hay-making has and 

 decreased to a greater extent than the resident labourers. 

 Mr. McDowall, however, considers that the decline in the 

 former is less, the explanation being that in many cases where 

 land has been laid down to grass, Irish labourers are employed 

 for six weeks during hay harvest and then paid off to find 

 employment, probably at the corn harvest. Formerly, when 

 a large staff was kept on the farm, the whole work of the 

 farm was carried on by the regular hands. 



LANARK. In the fruit-growing districts the number of 

 labourers temporarily employed at particular seasons has in- 

 creased, but in the agricultural districts the number has 

 decreased to a greater extent than the resident labourers. 

 Mr. Speir states that in his district the employment of tem- 

 porary labourers in hay time and harvest has almost ceased. 



ORKNEY. Temporary harvest labourers have declined to 

 some extent, owing to the use of machinery, in particular the 

 self-binder. Mr. Watt states that farmers have experienced a 

 great want of female servants ; these were largely employed 

 twenty years ago for singling turnips and hay and harvest 

 work, but now it is almost impossible to obtain their services. 

 " They prefer," he says, " indoor service of some kind, and if 

 they cannot get it in the country they go to Kirkwall, Strom- 

 ness, or south as domestic servants, dressmakers, shop girls, 

 and quite a number are school teachers." New machinery and 

 implements have to some extent enabled farmers to do without 

 them. 



RENFREW. The decline is stated to be about the same as 

 amongst resident labourers. In some instances fruit-picking 

 affords more temporary employment. 



SHETLAND. Mr. Anderson writes: "There is very little 

 variation in the number of labourers temporarily employed 

 for corn harvest from that for the whole season, because there 

 is no great extent of arable land on any of the larger farms. 

 Fruit and hop-picking are unknown here, and temporary 

 labourers have not declined more than resident labourers." 



STIRLING. The decrease amongst labourers temporarily em- 

 ployed for harvest has been greater than in the case of resident 

 labourers, especially during the last ten years, on account of 

 diminished cultivation and the general use of self-binders and 

 other machinery. 



WIGTOWN. Harvest is the chief time when extra labourers 

 are employed, and fewer are now required, there being more 

 land in grass. Those employed are mostly Irish. Mr. McMaster 

 considers that the decline is greater than in the resident 

 labourers. " Great numbers," he writes, " used to come over 

 from the North of Ireland for corn harvest; now there is 

 scarcely one for ten who came 20 or 30 years ago. 



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