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hilst spes aking on this subject we will allude to a poo from Sept.? 25th to Oct. 30th, and taking 31. as the 
ip fav M kindred one— the * harvest homes? * abt of that for 10 yards 
in in kind d the ‘gener iss 1 Ter sells flour, he mus g the times of innocent enjoyment and rejoicing, of Potato drills when the hinds v want ted money instead 
for it is clea r that, if a oraal rice in order to shears a d as the poets have sung, are T lya season of|of land for growing Potatoes, which was such a pre 
an more th f s aving his men in grain | dr ws revelry. We are gla see that a better | carious form of payment during the gener: al prevalence 
livelihood. Now the — piis ta the labourer is | system of celebrating the A rs of the harvest | of the Potato blight ; 44. of money, which is the ave rage 
[^ y seeks N eni 2 the articles of his food. | has — much discussion in Herefordshire. Mr. amount a hind receives when he has 1500 var f 
80 M gp ean which deserves attention. Booker Blakemore, M. P., and the local clergy, are | Potato drills, let him be a first-class farm servant, and 
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is workmen with necessaries | actively heading tbis agitation. Their scheme involves | 20, 30, or 50 years of age; 1“. as an equivalent for 
to lose valuable time in going |a refor m of the general condition of the labourer. month's food ; 7l. as the maximum that is given as 
n; and hence, too, they are} ‘It has hitherto been the custom in re joerg A for the | substitute for a oe ; 21. 10s. 
of the temptations which so ems T — to pay their workmen partly in money men stones of pork; 27. 16s. for the cartage of seven cart- 
l labourer in large towns. S loads of « of co. uu. 8 what s some fa armers jd Time 
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rey : ary rate es. is w pro ish the system of paying the labourers cartage of coat the same fs of — 27. 16s. f 
i his servants more t "1 3 des rüy i in cider, — substitute for the harvest hom eios — 5 rent free, some harvest ] ted 2 
uts parochial tea parties for the men with thei and as! 
E hear On the other Nu, when grain is Son, families ; ho | days, when each ed servant fou — reaper for the 
1 e s the m rate of | recent agric gsin the neighbou rhood, i — | rental of a one-roomed hovel only one — high (very 
á pn fi — " sat ar trad ti economy eee it in in favour, and seems like ely to lead to a large o moasure o few of them had more), and some of those which are still 
à yen 1 d, is not better standing have a loft, or more than t — our joists 
needed. While, it is farther srengga, D ltis wel known that the same qua has been | across the family room (such hovels, with their sm 
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that the oso SR not be subjec to lactation | very s —— fally agi M Ep aenea is y ( > 
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t tati A man is not ards and Reeds); Sl. 18s. 14d. for Oats, 5“. 7s. 9d. for 
M — power at labourers’ merry-m rag), join in a festival where | Barley, 17. 13s. 6d. for Peas, and reckoning the hind to 
E well that: ‘any | bread, butter, and — p^ and tea form the bill of receive 6s. per week e 37 w week 3 . per week for 
due man 3 ; LS an — 2 Sia inca are the Aae ot. “ele 2 14 pee 2 wing Tave ad no bo i 8 rr 
labo ld be in the power of the de : and the bondager to have = — — ge ps Ald. 
| cUm wier f a o — wis enr er ly paid in respective households, find it a great pleasure and js all the hind receives for ying 
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en crentes the very | Privilege to a ttend, and that healthy feeling of mutual r bondager’ es, givin cet] 
uently this ET since in the Wes | eo — — a — TR h should exist tween all | and materials * "ing ing — T€ 
uantities of cider are es in DA eu of | © of society has farmer reckons a comfortable dwelling-ho e 
„ On this point we shall presently dwell more "ma n were f. sor ud hovel as part of his servants „a hind is entitled 
. After careful deliberation it would seem that And th IX the poor, A. i d eem i for not only giving an entire 
the best mode of payment is to give a And * oor man lov lagen great.” r her board, but for —.— her lodgings, he and 
ll his wages in money, and it 05856 to Messrs. Spende. ore ia tho Dath his wie having to deaden 
clearly understood that the purchase from his banger er and West of Maglie Agricultura ; Society’s Journal. shame, by not having it 10 the — d» - eur sen- 
at cost price of. such articles of food as he may require si itive rational beings ! Deduet week 
ll be entirely optional on the part of the labourer. — — for he bondager’s board and lodgings, "i ni 2 
This opinion is entertained by many of our correspon- er n EFE dnce of bon wages, 28, 
monga whom we may mention Sir Stafford The € ion 2 G. O. is, according to the above, 2 m ee 
Mr. Henry T. Mudge, of Paignton; Mr. 9 p the acf nekis of 1 the Tin Ts d» uw value of a married farm servant's wages for 12 
briel Poole, of Bridgwater ; Mr. Tindall Harris, of | labo i se now, pian little — paid px months’ service. I have — some farm servants 
ME ; Mr. bud of Street, Somerset ; and earnings in m ney;* that here a a few on one farm have 4“. of money and 40 six- 
nan Eri peg who have kindly fav. SET us | ployers may be found h bushel sacks of Potatoes; and the servants of 
ith thee opinions o on n this and similar — ‘tailing,’ Wheat e than it dy fetch in p an » adjoi ning farm had only 37. 10s. of money and 
Tze ra 3 wages —The current rate of wagesis not a market: they are pein of a class whose days as | only 14 an eom sacks of Potatoes of the same extent 
tt tenant-farmers are numbered, for they are far in the | of land nown one ploughman have 30 
quently year by year. So far as we rear of that intelligence by the 20 of which a sacks of Pot we and some of his fellow ees 
an jud inf which ti upier of EN — tural Gazette, | crop not exceed seven and eight sacks. Farmers 
th large PEE of correspondents, the follow- | P. 850 for 1858.) Sin ce your report of the verbal and | like m other class of employers—some are anxious ard 
tt will pretty accurately represent Le amount t ti fthe Berwickshire | make their servants comfortable whatever be thei 
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in wages throughout the different counties of Corn- | Farmers’ Club ipta for the enterprising spirit that form of Payment; ut eauses over which they have no 
and Dorset. Cornwa il: Weekly | p s their servants planting bad seed, or a 
es, 12s.; but where the labourer is hired. by the tliatyastho bondage system peculiar to the border coun- | course ‘of p 5 weather, account for a total or partial 
time ives 9s. ; | ties and the extensive cultivation of Turnips are coeval, | filare . 12 1 like any other kind of crop. 
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M 15s. per acre; —— ARA 3s. per day |three-quarters of the In and 10d. per day fi and 4. the value of a ton, 
h board and cider. Somerse Weekly wages, 8s. Nov. 22 to March 1, for the bondagers’ work, from | there gr ate of 13. 4s. in the value of 
610s. with cider 3 pints per — at from 64. to 10d. | the commencement of that oppressive, degrading | some hind "otto crop. A hind who has about 3 tons 
llon ng | System till the ation which lasted for some | of Potatoes, whose cow’s milk with management 
nips twice, 10s. to 12s.; ; reaping, 5s. to » Te. per acre, time after the conclusion of the last continental war,| will produce 8 or 10 lbs. of butter a week duri 
h 2 — of cider; mowing, 2s. to 3s. per acre. | Which the farmers took advantage of and reduced the "muse will make a 11 good cheeses and feed one or 
levon : Weekly wages, 7s, to 8s. in North Devon ; ^e dread -— labourers’ wages — -— day throughout | two pigs, besides having a dish of Potatoes for the 
Ws. in South Devon. A large quantity of cider is com- | the The hinds made se attempts to both -— s — the 3 part — m year. Reckoni 
— amounting to 3 or 4 pints ordinarily, bu - — of the orm — a ar likewise get their | a goo o be worth 102, um to a working 
Barres um is in o, in some cases, wages raised; but for the want of an or rganised, deter- | man's "ami "ha a * 4 payment may — 
441, 4s. 
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acre, with 6 to 8 quarts of sins former, and the demand for female labour has com- | cartloads of will cost — 1. 15s. A — 
per acre. Dorset: 7s, | pe elled the ma jority of farmers in that district to again | hind with six children and a bon will consume all 
ly ages; the practice of. cider bw does not | raise the bondagers' wages 2d. per day and not charge | the oatmeal during the twelvemonth by making use of 
deg as i n Devon and | the hii hind Mee e: pe irn the 9 wages absorb it for breakfast and supper, and the Peas and Barley 
It will s ^ b th anks the hind. The married | meal which 0 baked into bread in six months. Married 
im the amou * wages paid "em Somerset | ploughmen in m d cou; . 5 Berwick, P and farm servan ts wit ith such a family, and borne down by 
s next in . then South — followed by the east part of Selkirkshire are termed “ g the b manage 
Es d Dorset brings up the rear. It e | to feed a pig. But a man with such a € who has 
mon fi urers of North Devon to farm labourer, be responsible 2 € wages ife s her | a useless cow and only a few sacks of Potatoes, cannot 
n er earn.| board, lodgings, and purc washing | feed a pig; neither has he money p bread, 
about x - par with | her clothes; but few ers bin ind —— keep any other household requisite, nor suitable clothing to 
or Corn equalled only by those the “ bep i e rens ntly employed pg | protect him from the inclemency of the weather to 
—— which lie — in the the and should any of the which he is sometimes unavoidably exposed. Suppose 
Bristol. pa AA to work thoa TM the * ^ iri is a young ploughman to have engaged hi a 
ris e mself to 
he wages in cider.—There is one — paid her day's wages for the time she absent, farm, at some of the annual hiring markets which 
of wages — in the but a has to pay the bon ^ loe "au are held about the beginning of March, with the inten- 
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g feelings of regret; we allude to explain more fully what I have already stated in the | duties on the 27th óf last May. Some farmers would 
of the wages in cider. We zette, that 105 31. 10s. to 71. or 87. give him 20 stones of ditincak ohe half of the specified 
question with all due deference | 0f money; from 1000 to ards of drills for quantity of — and cm he receives for the twelve- 
1s of many p ractical men, who regard this | growing Potatoes—the pee of money given being month, and a cartload of coals on the evening of the 
a : erent Tight. regulated by the extent of land allowed for growing 26th of May; but some would not give him any oat- 
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en too in the long and one-sixth of an imperial gallon of “ harvest ale” | of the grain a inmas, and some farmers will ere 
: masters — Somer for dinner, and six pecks of Barley as an equivalent — a have om, he the servants the whole of the 
hela The for 24 suppers of porridge and milk for a month’s of pa 2 is a newly married 
him, but wears him out, for bod during te. 
but ut exciting like spirits and purch th 
will never be what they who cannot, either have the milk of one of their eco "x de en a wn which may e worth 
mas . to or a | 2s. pe and the yo 
cow’s keep; they have liberty to keep a pig, but some | of May to the beginning of z i 
farmers who re allow their resident yearly servants would have to pay his bondager's wages last Martimas 
to keep a pig, gi give them 10i imperial stones of pork; a l| which might vary from 67. 10s. to nearly 8/.; he pro- 
this together th th bably not receiving more than 87. 10s. from his master 
bbe and a house rent free, is the general rate of mar- for her wages, board, lodgings and washing. 
: = farm-servants' wages in the above-named district. | farmer sends the Oats to the mill, th W is deli 
Percentage to be nearer 20 than 15. Taking the aggregate average price of grain at Liver- to the hind, the hind must send his Barley to the mill 
