484 ' LABOUR. 



AT BRAMMERTON, 177O. 



At Hingham, summer and winter, is. 8d. 

 The harvest 42s. to 50s. and board, generally for a- 

 month. 

 A custom is coming in around Waterden, 2cc. of 

 allowing board-wages to farm servants, instead of the 

 . old way of feeding in the house ; 8s. a week are given ; 

 ■wages 5I. 5s. This is one material cause of an increased 

 negle6l of the Sabbath, and looseness of morals ; they are 

 free from the master's eye, sleep where and with whom 

 ihey please, and are rarely seen at church. A most per- 

 nicious praflice, v/hich will by-and-bye be felt severely in 

 its consequences by the farmers. Mr. Hill feeds his 

 servants in the old way. 



The price is raised at Waterden 6d. a day, in the last 

 two years, and tlie work worse done. Last winter 2s. 



a day. 



