HOURS OF WORK AND WAGES. 



and railways are absent, affords another object-lesson 

 as to the cause of low wages in purely agricultural 

 regions. 



In the ensuing table, quoted, like the preceding ones, 

 with some alteration of arrangement from the Board 

 of Trade report, are shown the earnings of the " hired 

 men " those lodged and boarded in farmhouses 

 both the minimum and maximum wages being given, 

 as there is a good deal of fluctuation amongst the several 

 districts. Flintshire is not included, because in that 

 county there are very few " hired men/' The total 

 earnings are computed by adding the sum of 6s. 6d. to 

 the weekly cash payments. For simplification we give 

 only the earnings per week, omitting the annual amounts 

 as also given in the Board of Trade report ; and by 

 this plan our readers can more conveniently compare 

 with preceding weekly payments of agricultural labourers 

 in England. 



TABLE 7. EARNINGS OF "HIRED MEN," BOARDED AND LODGED 



IN WALES. 



It is naturally a somewhat difficult matter to make 

 an average amount for an addition to cash wages that 

 shall accurately represent the value of the food supplied 

 to a boarded farm labourer. This difficulty is expressed 



