EARNINGS OF IRISH PEASANTS. 



particulars of the weekly rates of cash wages of their labourers, 

 and the total yearly cash earnings, with details as to how they 

 are made up, and also the allowances in kind, and since 

 information given by the Local Government Board In- 

 spectors as to the precise allowances usually made in most 

 of the Poor Law Unions in Ireland is available, it is believed 

 that the figures given in the tables, (pp. 131, 13 3, and 135) are 





 TABLE 13. EARNINGS OF ORDINARY FARM LABOURERS IN IRELAND. 



practically correct. Owing to the general absence of piece- 

 work and of opportunities of earning much in the way of 

 extra payments in harvest-time, the annual earnings of farm 

 labourers who are not fed in the farmhouses do not, gener- 

 ally speaking, much exceed the total amount received in 

 weekly cash wages. In estimating the annual earnings, 

 the value of cottages, where given free of rent, has for all 



