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currants, vegetables, tea, and skim milk. The correspondent 

 who sends this particular instance has made exhaustive inquiries 

 in this district, and sends the following information as regards 

 the district as a whole. He says : " Most of the men in the 

 district keep pigs, and most have gardens, but some are said to 

 be very small. All have allotments ; they are, it is said, often 

 a mile from the villages. Most of the men belong to sick clubs, 

 local or otherwise. There are also clothing clubs, pig clubs, 

 and some coal charities." 



In the Isle of Ely 



Breakfast. Tea with sugar, no milk ; bread, butter, or lard. 

 The man probably has a herring or small piece of pork. Dinner. 

 Potatoes fried in lard, or pudding with pork and onions in it, 

 potatoes (Sundays, fresh beef or pork). Tea. Tea with sugar, 

 no milk ; bread and butter or lard. Supper. Bread, and scraps 

 left over from dinner. Note. Nearly all the men buy a small 

 pig, fatten, and sell it. They mostly have gardens and about 

 twenty poles of potato land. Some have allotments. 



CHESHIRE. 



Breakfast. Tea or coffee, bread, butter, oatmeal and milk 

 gruel ; sometimes a little bacon. Lunch (at 10 a.m.). The man 

 has a piece of bread and cheese or butter. Dinner. Cold meat 

 left over from Sundays, bacon and potatoes. If eaten away 

 from home, the man has bread instead of potatoes (Sundays 

 beef, mutton, pork or veal, potatoes or other vegetables, rice 

 pudding, or jam or fruit dumpling). Tea or Supper. Tea, 

 bread and cheese or butter. Sometimes cold dumpling left 

 from dinner on Sunday. Note. In this district a large number 

 of the farm labourers have small holdings, and keep pigs, a cow, 

 and poultry ; they grow potatoes and other vegetables. They 

 make their own butter. The majority feed two or three pigs 

 each year, and one is sold towards the rent ; the others are 

 killed for home consumption. When there are not small hold- 

 ings, most cottages have good gardens. Most of the men belong 

 to benefit societies. Their children are insured, when infants, 

 in assurance companies. The wives of many of them are 

 members of parish or estate clothing clubs. 



DERBYSHIRE. 



WEEKDAYS Breakfast. Bread, butter, bacon, cheese, tea. 

 Dinner. Beef, pork or bacon, potatoes, tea or beer. Tea and 

 Supper. Bread, butter, syrup, jam, tea ; perhaps fish (fresh 

 or tinned). SUNDAYS Breakfast. Bread, butter, bacon, tea. 

 Dinner. Beef or pork, occasionally a fowl, potatoes, tea, beer. 

 Tea. Bread, butter, jam, tinned fish, tea ; perhaps some 

 fancy bread. Supper. The same sort of diet as tea ; perhaps 

 some beer. Note. Nearly all the men in this district keep pigs 

 to supply bacon for their own use, and some to sell. They also 

 have gardens and potato land free, ready prepared. They 

 generally belong to benefit societies or clubs. 



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