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p ation for e 
and made slaves of all the — or to 
when th 
42—1850. | 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
© 667 
And I might speak — E 
Autiec 
= the othe r agad 
to 
the payment of the farm servant will cost his master 
more than the or 
vour, cause 
of the nature of the bargain before it is made 
spea 
Again, the subject ineludes ‘the whole history of this 
bargain ; and I might refer to patria 
te 
alone was really free, 
a later period 
in this country and in 
master — — was almost as 
great as that een master and slave. But the dis- 
cussion spa i even if I were able for ie must 
us rather than useful, and it forms no 
g & 
j 
a consideration of the 
i other parts of eas 
Europe now ; 2 : degrades the servant * the bre of 
gaiean chattels, which pass from o wer 
n | duces 
; | forare 
e It is sent by the — fo the ‘neighbouring m mill and 
th 
professions i in our own country; and I might speak pe 
trades unions and of strikes—of 
a week, 
and 10s. a week in 
Ia Here 9 the wages are 7s. or 8s. 
In our own county, 78., 88., 98.5 
r the cause of re meer 
fro to 8 with eottage- ren 
has to pay un of ot amounting to from 18. to * * a wis y 
Now 
Besid 
to supply a woman 2 by N 
e farmer requires one, as at har d Turnip- 
e | ences 3 “Meanwhile if any one 
the idea of an able-bodied -man bag his stanly ba 8 
f, - week, I as saving 
Ireland, where he will fin ind men 8 
My friends, there 
idual cases here and 
ge 
bread is made (at 
Barley and Peas-meal mixed. Now, were 
in 
t 
th se 
at least in 1 ‘hit of 
da; 
always 
uces, and one- “orth * of the quantities stipulated | 
idin op 
| ground at the different sorts | 
of meal, and 
| dealers, ‘meal sellers, and —— are saved to the eon 
umer, and the corn —— would cost the farmer 164. 
ral apay his servant is more valuable to dhe latter than 
paid in * — — would be spent in 
siones” of flour or quartern loaves at she end of every 
e who 
Now I would ‘suggest to masters and to 
pase whether the more general adoption of payments in 
ind to those who are engaged from year to year 
— be for their mutual benefit. i i 
pea : 
renee. ibe ee and > employed ot the Ten — 
and so But n 
Hours Bill, e of this forms part of 
my — T shall — — the present time 
and to our own country, and from among all the trades 
and professions which find oceupation within . 5 fa 
icultural labourer alone pro 
condition in different parts of the ö 
8 
of the agri 
. his 
propose to point out the modes b; 
believe, it — 
his and that of 
Just consi : there 
u 
themselves, a population o 
are dependent for support. Is. the 
hich alone, as I 
aia — ropose to 3 Cr: 
8 eee 
Dosa st ths ining th ect I have 
reduced sits s importance so as to render it yaad of 1 
; Thos. Fullerto A ther 
| 5 be ee and if you should are thought that | 
: | mall a nly 4 
ing | master at the pon aoe payday, . — 
u 
Ing town 
out of —— some part 
house, which ought to provide for the wan 
d 
iate profits of retail | hi 
8 
bourers 
to meet the misc . 
d i ntrol. 
many a labouring man; and th 
so ay as thi is, 1 fears a lower still, for the period of 
ckle as the wind ; his health 
fd g eng 708 shal l be n 
a dire 
but 22 can —9 te with "perfect confidence in y accuracy, 
that such a scheme must fail. Sole Sp os, ae 
i hi 
mor ha ing to 
tion between, the quantity wante and the quan 
„offered in the market, between the — of the en 
£ 
cv eia +h, 
n 
i lived with 
r Tunnah, 
Kira Gray, 93 w Elliott, 
„ 203 peoga Young, 
G. Chirnside, 105 5 We 
That looks 
A 
8 
t wor 
left 1054. 15s. Sd. of their wa 
en 
7; San m Redpath, 15 Set a 
as surely as, supposing you 
land to Grase, wages suen fall. 
es the value 
1 
KO 
rect] he gonna re z aiat under ler the ee 
of nine ; and you 
that time may be 
give the subject the attention which it deserv 
first endeavour to describe the condition of the agricul- 
in di t parts of the country. This I 
the northernmost 
ea 
counties of in great 
measure in kind ing their n Oatmeal 
milk and Potate ey. 
ant in i mi 
Meal — about 2} lbs. y, half a — hig g milk 
daily; and about 10 or 12 ewt. of Potatoes a year, w 
from. 12. 184. a „ and lodging free, 2 in a 
room t for himself ~~ ons 2 
buildings, with one or other tov 0 
married servan N empi yea 
in the north are provided with cot- 
farm rent free, and their | 
on the 
pe een ed a in kind as to avoid 8 of 
going to mar * articles as Oatm 
cheese, bacon, milk, ithstanding | 
he-only te 
— for labour, 35 k for e 2 
rtance. 
the’ amily 1 rou 
with 
able-bodied workmen in differe 
btained them from 
t portion of the 
reinvi 
wing or knitting ; $- De Nees pe 
ch almost all acg 
companions, with no parent’s eye 
to watch their action x and no nn voice R warn 
them of their- errors and say which situati 
calculated to 2 — comfort, family ee 
and mo 
the shepherd, perhaps, and the carte * e. on a 
farm 
5 me to be eel vag a grea 
ere will be 
he | large num 
a land to for 
come rman the south things wea m mane! 
- | improve sin this respect. Labourers receiv p 
receive a cottage rent free; but the others hire | 
for the 3 of the next ae if tha 
raise the rate of wages among t that 
ber of people to the rate of more favoured 
districts I shall have dene æsi the oe of the 
to pay p, and I shall have 
nothing left either for my ae T. Beer or theirs 
for another year. * ~ ed farmers of Somerset, 
Wilts, and Dorse Why they are as good- 
natured and wiling to — their neighbours as 
of Northumberland. It is not their fault that wages are 
i were 
ago ing; the 
t is the more 1 will people 
many 
or themselves. The following 
in last May 
8 
different abe 
Yorkshire, 108. to 128. weekly; Cotta 
88.; pry rent, 41. 
pe: iam ere ál. and even 6l. 
South Lancashire, 95. to 
In Norfolk and Suffolk, 2 to 88. 4 . ee to | 
70s. a year. 
1 | engage in —the greater will — the demand for labour, 
and the higher will its value r 1 ‘ark 
is the way in which the ra isk Weeden 
it you please; but never let us think that ey be 
ised by main force, pon m th ont of. a 
resolution. They a 
of the plant, and 
In Worcestershire 7s. to 9s. ; and here 
giving r cider to fa rm ‘servants, ‘malt 97 
= See Mr. — of Dilston's paper in — 2 of — a 
ins, and we shall find that it has 
from which it pace its no 
Agricultural Society’s —- hose des 
words I have generally tak 7 
is no sue thing then as.» duty to, pa; pay higher 
cause 1 Pee sigan people are very 
