1 62 Rents, Wages, and Profits in Agriculture 



standpoint of the persons attracted. The 

 term, real wages, is a convenient expression, 

 but a complete analysis would involve a 

 complete social study of town and rural 

 life as realised by the masses of the people. 

 The facts seem to show that with the 

 increase of education and the improvements 

 in the mobility of labour the inflow to the 

 towns has increased. The term, mobility 

 of labour, again, is an expression that 

 summarises a number of causes and con- 

 ditions ; it involves not only improvements 

 in the transport of the most difficult of all 

 baggage to be transported — namely, man — 

 but also improvements in the knowledge 

 of the labour market. As regards education, 

 it is admitted that if children are kept at 

 school till fourteen years of age they find 

 farm work unattractive, and the education 

 fits them rather for other callings. 



On the whole, then, so far as the 



