ii6 Rents, WageSy and Profits in Agriculture 



has brought out this point very clearly. 

 We must take account of the perquisites, 

 the common rights, the food and drink, 

 the bit of land, and so on, and add so 

 much to the money wage. Then, again, 

 as regards the money wages actually paid, 

 they are often quoted by the unit of 

 work done, e.g.^ threshing of various kinds 

 of grain at so much per quarter, reaping, 

 mowing, etc., at so much per acre, and so 

 on for other kinds of work. But if we 

 wish to compare agricultural wages with 

 wages in quite different occupations, we 

 must obviously take a unit of time as the 

 basis. In the agricultural records time 

 wages, when quoted as such, or estimated 

 from piece-work, are generally estimated 

 by the day, but earnings (as indicating the 

 standard of comfort) are generally estimated 

 by the year. If, then, the wages are quoted 

 by the day, we must take account of the 



