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the farmhouses in cottages, and those, unmarried, lodged 

 and boarded in the farmhouses. The outside men find 

 their own food, and therefore their earnings, as shown by 

 the following table, represent the whole of their in- 

 comings. In this table the actual cash is distinguished 

 from the payment in kind in whatever shape the latter 

 may be, so that a glance will show the amount of the 

 extras and the total earnings. 



TABLE 6. AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS, IN WALES, OF 

 MARRIED LABOURERS FINDING THEIR OWN FOOD. 



In Wales, as in England, the rate of wages is materially 

 influenced by the presence of industrial undertakings 

 competing for labour. Glamorganshire, for instance, 

 being the chief centre of the coal and iron industries, 

 shows the highest rate of agricultural wages, whilst 

 appreciably higher rates than in the low-wage counties 

 are obtainable in Brecknock, Carmarthen, Carnarvon, 

 Denbigh, Flint, and Merioneth, because of the existence 

 in those counties of coal, copper, and lead mines, of lime- 

 stone and slate quarries, and of other industrial com- 

 peting undertakings. The five remaining counties of 

 Anglesea, Cardigan, Montgomery, Pembroke, and Radnor 

 are purely agricultural, and the remoteness of Cardigan- 

 shire, including so many districts from which towns 



