Industries. 



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Changes in DENBIGH. Mr. Gomer Koberts considers that the changes 

 System in farming noted under Question 2 (see p. 47) have reduced the 

 and Special demand for labour by 20 to 30 per cent. No particular industry, 

 he states, has been started during the last 25 years. 



GLAMORGAN. Mr. Forrest writes : " Formerly large flocks 

 of sheep were fed out during the winter, and this employed 

 a lot of labour feeding the sheep and clearing the roots for 

 them. Fruit farming, vegetable growing, and poultry rearing 

 have tended to bring labour back to the land." Another cor- 

 respondent does not consider that any alteration in the system 

 of farming has affected the demand" for labour in his district. 



PEMBROKE. Mr. Richards writes : " There are no special 

 branches of agricultural industry carried on in this district. 

 For the last 50 years there has been no important alteration 

 in the system of farming generally which would materially 

 affect the demand for labour ; corn growing and grazing have 

 been about equal, and the regular labour employed upon the 

 farm is very little, if any, less than formerly." Mr. Yorke 

 writes : " None of the minor industries named are prosecuted 

 on a large scale. All the cottagers grow a few fowls in the old- 

 fashioned way. They sell to travelling higglers; altogether 

 a large number of fowls are collected weekly in this 

 way. I assume this minor industry tends to keep some of 

 the cottagers from leaving." 



SCOTLAND. 



DIVISION VI. 



Counties of Aberdeen., Banff, Berwick, Clackmannan, Elgin, Fife, 

 ...... Forfar, Haddington, Kincardine, Kinross, Lmlithgow, Mid- 

 lothian, Nairn, Peebles, Perth, Roxburgh and Selkirk. 



ABERDEEN. Mr. Bruce writes : " On my farm there used to 

 be ten men and one woman employed. Now I have only six 

 men in all. I have withdrawn upwards of 100 acres from cul- 

 tivation and laid it down in permanent pasture for sheep, and 

 I consider that every 100 acres laid down in grass dispenses 

 with about 3J farm workers. There is no fruit farming, &c., 

 in this locality." 



BANFF. Mr. Livingstone remarks that poor land is going 

 out of cultivation, and must continue to do so at present prices. 

 Improving land by trenching and draining to any extent is out 

 of the question. None of the particular industries mentioned 

 have affected the agricultural population in his district. 



ELGIN. The extension of the area under grass has lessened 

 the demand 'for labour, and no' new agricultural industry has 

 arisen which would tend to check the decline. 



