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of small extra cash payments for harvest in some districts, 

 practically due to allowances in kind. Except in eight 

 counties, the excess of earnings over wages is 33. 6d. a week 

 and upwards, and amounts to between 55. and 73. in eighteen 

 counties. In Aberdeenshire the excess is 75. 2d." 



TABLE 10. AVERAGE YEARLY AND WEEKLY EARNINGS OF 

 SCOTTISH SHEPHERDS. 



It is added : 



" Generally the excess of earnings over wages is less in 

 the southern than in the northern parts of Scotland. With 

 the exception of Wigtown, the excess of earnings over 

 wages in no case reaches 55. a week south of the Firth of 

 Forth. The places where excess is least are mainly in 

 the neighbourhood of Glasgow and Edinburgh. The excess 

 is greatest in the counties in the extreme north. The 

 position of shepherd in Scotland is an important one. 

 In numbers the shepherds come next to the horsemen, 



