5l8 COMPARISON OF TIMES. 



causes as tlie advance of other labour conne(5led with the 

 farm, with the general objeilion lal)ourcrs now have to 

 that employment, whose capacities are adapted to any 

 other method of obtaining a livelihood; and many will go 

 miles ior employmetit, sooner than thresh corn. 



Theie is no doubt but the great increase in the price 

 of blacksmiths' work, since the year 1790, may be 

 accounted for from the dearness of foreign iron, which 

 'was then sold at il. 3s. per cwt. ; is now at il. los. per 

 cwt. Coals enhanced is. per chaldron ; and the advance 

 of journeymen wages, which has been in proportion with 

 other labour. 



A very material charge on arable farms (not noted in the 

 Statement), since the year 1 7 90, is the advance on wheel- 

 wrights' work, which has been greater in proportion than 

 anv other, owing to the increase in the price of timber, 

 ash-timber, which is materially useful in their employ- 

 ment, having had a rise from 2I. 5s. per load, which was 

 then the gesieral price, to 5I. per load, the present one, 

 and other timber in the like proportion ; the advance in 

 the price of their working tools, and the additional wages 

 given to their men. 



In this county, thatchers are seldom employed by 

 the day, only on small breaches that cannot be conveni- 

 ently measured. The price, per day, for man and la- 

 bourer, is advanced, since the year 1790, is. per day. 

 Measured work, in that year, was charged at 4s. 2d. per 

 square of 100 feet, and is. per square for materials: it is 

 now 5s., and 2s. for materials. Hay and corn ricks are 

 usually done by the square yard: in 1790 it was o^d. 

 per yard ; in 1803 i4d. Here seems to be a greater ad- 

 vance than in any other labour connedled with the farmer 5 

 which may be supposed to have its cause from few Icarn- 



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