CHAPTER XVII. 

 EARNINGS OF SCOTTISH PEASANTS. 



ENOUGH has been said in preceding chapters of this 

 volume as to the various ways in which the total re- 

 muneration of farm servants is made up in the parts of 

 the United Kingdom England, Wales, and Scotland 

 so far dealt with. It will be unnecessary, therefore, to 

 refer further to these details ; but it will be important 

 and interesting to show at a glance the proportionate 

 difference between cash payments and earnings in 

 kind. It will be interesting, also, to mention that, taking 

 a wide and general average, the value of board and 

 lodging has been separately estimated to be 8s. a week, 

 and the average value of cottage rent, given in as 

 part of earnings, has been reckoned at 4 per annum, 

 which is slightly more than is. 6d. per week. It will 

 be seen from the figures in the following tables that 

 the weekly difference in particular cases cannot be 

 made to " tally " with the average ; but that is because 

 all classes of labourers are put together married and 

 unmarried that is, roughly, those living outside the 

 farmhouses and finding their own food, and those living 

 inside and boarded and lodged at the expense of the 

 farmer. Before giving the tables, it may be as well 

 to give the Board of Trade notes in explanation of them. 

 The report says : 



" In the tables giving the wages and earnings of the 

 different classes of farm servants, no distinction has been 

 made between married and unmarried men, and the figures 



