WEST DEVONSHIRE. 321 



Husbandry, 



The year]y wages of fervants are,— 



Prinie Men Servants 81. 



Second 61. 



Women Servants 3I to 3 guineas. 



Boys gd. to i ^d. a week. 



Day wages : — in winter and fpring, is. 

 a day ; with a quart of cider, to con- 

 flant laborers. In hay time, is. with 

 more liquor. In harveft, i s. with full 

 board. See alfo page 107. 



Mowing meadow grafs — 2s. Clover — 

 2od. and Corn iSd. the cuftomary 

 acre * ; with 3 or 4 quarts of cider, 

 each acre. 



Reaping Wheat — 4 or 5s. an acre, with- 

 out bindin? it. 



Thrashing Wheat (in the Devon- 

 {hire manner fee page 181.) — is. a 

 " bufhel" of two Winchefler bufliels ; 

 including the making up and binding 

 of the reed. 



Vol. I. Y Day's 



* Customary acre. This ic calculated byperches 

 of eighteen feet fquare ; being proportioned to the ilatu'.s; 

 acre, nearly as fix is to five. 



