FOOD AND CLOTHING. 67 



DORSETSHIRE. 



Breakfast. Bread, butter, cheese, cold bacon, tea (Sundays, 

 fried bacon). Dinner. Boiled bacon, potatoes, and other 

 vegetables (Sundays, mutton or beef with pudding) ; or salt 

 pork, vegetables, dumplings (Sundays, a little fresh meat or 

 pork). Tea. Bread, butter or jam, cheese, tea (Sundays, cake) ; 

 or bread, cheese, butter, jam, or treacle, tea (on Sundays also 

 cake). Supper. Very rarely any ; or if any, vegetables and salt 

 pork. Note. Nearly all the men keep pigs, and all have 

 gardens and allotments. The allotments are always manured 

 and cultivated for them, so that they have only to plant and 

 hoe. The majority of the men belong to benefit societies, and 

 nearly every village in the district has a coal club. Referring to 

 one particular district, a correspondent states : " The farm 

 labourers are not allowed to keep pigs or poultry. They usually 

 have both large gardens and allotments. They do not generally 

 belong to benefit societies or coal and clothing clubs." 



DURHAM. 



Breakfast. Bread, bacon, tea (children, bread and butter). 

 Dinner. Beef or bacon, potatoes, pudding, or tart (Sundays, 

 generally beef). Tea. Tea, and bread and butter or treacle. 

 Supper. Same as tea. Note. Pigs are not generally kept. 

 Most of the men have small gardens. Some men belong to 

 benefit societies, but this is not a general practice. 



ESSEX. 



Breakfast. Bread, butter, cheese, tea, milk. Dinner. 

 Bread and cheese (Sundays, pork or bacon ; a little fresh meat 

 occasionally; potatoes, tea. Tea. Bread, butter or jam, tea. 

 Supper. Pork or bacon ; a little fresh meat occasionally. Note. 

 A good many men keep pigs, and they have allotments to the 

 extent of 20 rods. They generally belong to benefit societies, 

 and the aged and widows belong to coal and clothing clubs. 



GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 



Breakfast. Tea, bread, cheese, butter ; sometimes oatmeal ; 

 bacon occasionally. Dinner. Bread, cheese, bacon, potatoes, 

 and green vegetables ; fresh meat once or twice a week (Sundays, 

 fresh meat, vegetables, pudding). Tea. Tea, bread, butter, 

 jam. Supper. Tea, bread and cheese. Notes. As a rule, 

 labourers keep pigs when stys are provided. Some farmers 

 object to their men keeping pigs on the ground that the tempta- 

 tion of taking food for them is great. All the men have gardens 

 or allotments. "Allotments" (one correspondent wrote) "are 

 not popular in this neighbourhood." In one parish 16 acres 

 of derelict allotments have been thrown back on to the farms. 

 The principal demand for allotments is not by farm labourers, 



