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TABLE 17. ORDINARY AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS (continued}. 

 Average Total of Weekly Earnings. 



The accidental juxtaposition of figures in the alpha- 

 betical arrangement of counties adopted by us for greater 

 convenience of reference presents curiously some 

 strange contrasts in the average weekly amounts of the 

 total earnings of ordinary agricultural labourers in the 

 United Kingdom. For instance, the us. 6d. of Armagh 

 against the 205. lod. of Ayr ; the IDS. 4d. of Cavan 

 against the i8s. 8d. of Carnarvon ; the 95. yd. of Clare 

 against the i8s. gd. of Chester ; the los. lod. of Cork 

 against the 175. 4d. of Cornwall, and the 2os. of Cumber- 

 land and Westmorland ; the los. id. of Donegal against 

 the 175. id. of Devon (once amongst the lowest paid of 

 agricultural counties, where wages were lower less than 

 forty years ago than they are in Donegal to-day) ; the 

 I2S. gd. of even Dublin (the Irish metropolitan county) 

 against the i8s. lod. of Dumfries and the 22s. 2d. of 

 Durham ; the 93. i id. of Fermanagh against the 2os. 5d. 

 of Fife, Kinross, and Clackmannan ; the gs. gd. of 

 Galway against the 2is. 3d. of Glamorgan (appreciably 



