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and bakers' vans which go round the country and call at nearly 

 every door, selling tea, sugar, jam, syrup, bread, etc. Oatcakes 

 are now out of fashion, flour products taking their place, while 

 farm servants' wives often barter the oatmeal or potatoes (which 

 they get free) for fish. Another correspondent states that only 

 three meals a day are generally eaten, except in harvest time, 

 when there is also a supply of coffee or harvest beer and rolls. 



BERWICK. 



Breakfast (5.30 a.m.). Tea and home-made scones, or white 

 bread and butter or jam. Second breakfast (8.30 a.m.). Cold 

 tea, scones, butter or jam (in field). Dinner (11.30 a.m.). 

 Potato or barley broth, with meat in it, either beef, mutton, 

 pork or ham ; bread and butter, cheese, and tea, potatoes. (At 

 3.30 p.m.). Cold tea, bread and jam (in field). Tea (6.30 p.m.). 

 Bakers' white bread or home-baked, white flour scones, tea, 

 butter or jam, and occasionally ham and eggs. Supper. Oat- 

 meal porridge or bread, butter and eggs, or fat ham, home-cured. 

 Note. Many returns state that all farm servants in this county 

 keep pigs, and in many cases a cow. Most of them kill two pigs 

 a year (weight 16 stones). 



BUTE. 



A return from the Isle of Arran gives the following details : 

 Breakfast. Porridge and sweet milk, tea, bread and butter, with 

 sometimes a little bacon or an egg, or a little fish when procur- 

 able (on Sundays the parents do not generally have porridge). 

 Dinner. Scotch broth, with the meat that made it, with potatoes. 

 Ocasionally stewed meat and potatoes, with pudding afterwards. 

 Sometimes stock fish and potatoes, with bread and milk after- 

 wards. Supper. In summer there may be fresh herrings, and, 

 in winter, salted or cured herrings or other fish, with, perhaps, 

 bacon or cheese. Young children may take bread and milk. 

 Note. It is stated that all keep poultry, and some a pig. They 

 get meal in bolls at wholesale prices from the farmer, this being 

 charged against their wages. 



CAITHNESS. 



WEEKDAYS First breakfast (5 a.m.). Oatmeal brose with 

 milk. Second breakfast (n a.m.). Oatmeal porridge and milk, 

 oat bread, loaf bread, or flour scones, with tea, butter or jam. 

 Dinner or Supper (6 p.m.). Potatoes and salt herrings, with some 

 kind of bread as at breakfast ; tea, butter or jam. SUNDAYS 

 Breakfast (9 a.m.). Salt herrings, tea, bread, butter or jam. 

 Dinner (3 p.m.). Broth, butchers' meat and potatoes. Supper, 

 (j p.m.). Tea, bread, butter or jam. Note. Other reports say 

 that most married farm servants keep about twelve hens, which 

 one return estimates as producing 2. worth of eggs yearly, one 

 half of which is sold. Many also keep a pig, and some a cow, 

 from the milk of which butter is made. 



