TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION F. 829 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. Agricultural Wages in the United Kingdom from 1770 to 1895. 
By A. L. Bowzey, 1/.A., £.S.S. 
The paper completes an investigation of which the preliminary results have 
been published in the ‘Statistical Journal.’ The first question dealt with is the 
relation between nominal weekly wages and annual earnings. The following 
imaginary budget of receipts shows the nature of the question and is typical : 
8. £7 8: 
Winter wages . : ; . 9 for 30 weeks . 13 10 
Summer wages ‘ 5 Seige LOE: 8 5 
Hay Harvest . 2 3 eels yh tgee os eye 6 
Corn Harvest . ‘ 3 Ry edt aed ee? le ; " Pyne eget 
Task work makes up for time lost in bad weather and yields in 
addition . ' 3 : : : . 5 : - pene La (8) 
Cheap rent, free beer, and smaller perquisites; general average 
6d. per week . c = ‘ : ; : @ - 6 
AnnnalIncome ., . : 4 : . 3O 12 
Equivalent to 11s. 9d. per week. 
Average of summer and winter weekly rates. 3 : F 10 
Excess of weekly earnings over wages, 1s. 9d. or 17 per cent. 
There seems no good reason for holding that this resulting difference of 17 per 
cent. has altered much in the period. 
The method of interpolating figures for dates as to which no direct calculations 
are available is illustrated by diagram, 
The general result is shown in the following tables: 
Annual Earnings of Agricultural Labourers. 
England and Wales Scotland Treland United Kingdom. 
£ £ £ £ 
1770 a ‘ AW) 9 9 3 
1810 : 3 eae | 28 10 34 
1830 5 ‘ a0 19 8 17 
1860 3 : . 84 36 10 27 
1892 c 5 . 40 49 25 37 
2. Note sur la situation agricole d’un canton du Pas-de-Calais. Par 
un Membre de la Société d’Economie Sociale de France. 
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. 
The following Papers were read :— 
1. The Census, 1901. By Miss C. E. Cotter 
2. The Course of Average Wages between 1790 and 1860, 
By Grorcz Hy. Woon, /.S.S. 
The object of this paper is to measure the course of wages, both real and 
hominal, betwee: 1790 and 1860, Mr, Bowley has measured wages between 1840 
