bupplkmeht. STATISTICS OF BRITISH AGRICULTURE. 



13fi7 



1199 (§8495.) 



•• We must go deeper for the causes of demoralisation than the mere assembling toge h^r of men and 

 women in the fields . It is sa.d by nearly all the witnesses that the women who work n the t i e d ^ake 

 neither good housewives nor good domest.c servants Now to be ne ther a onl "nKe«ue 

 a good household servant, is a grievous charge against outfield labour « ere out field »™f " ' b 

 able with a result so much to be regretted But the cause ! of the D orset and \\ .Its and J^ne^u 

 Devon women who have worked in the fields being such thriftless housewives, as the} ar en ™™f 

 to be in the Reports mentioned, is quite a different cause from that as signed. I : is J ust as dmere 

 as possibly can be, for it U that the unstable nature of al agricultural engagements m . tn * 3 

 England begets a pre.ariousness of employment, with small am / 1 ." c ^ 1 "T,rter S Vord hou=ekcc P n~ 

 pood furniture and clothes, and family stores of provisions, unattainable, renders good nou-ekcepin, 



impossible." 



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