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WORKPEOPLE. 



NO inconliderable fhare of farm labor 

 is done by farmers themfelves, their wives, 

 their fons, and their daughters. On the 

 larger farms, however, workpeople of dif^ 

 ferent defcriptiqns are employed, They ' 

 ^re either 



J. Laborers, 

 IL Servants, or 

 JIL Apprentices. 



L The LABORERS of the Diilritt 

 are below par : many oi them drunken, 

 idle fellows ; and not a few of them may be 

 faid to be honeftly dilhonefl ; declaring, , 

 without ixferve, that a poor man cannot 

 bring up a family on fix ihillings a week 

 and honefly. In addition, however, to. 

 thefe low wages, it is pretty common for 

 farmers to let their conllant laborers have 

 corn, at a fixed price ; and endeavour to 



give 



