1907.] Wages of Agricultural Labourers. 429 



The disease rarely assumes the proportions of an epidemic, 

 and the most satisfactory method of arresting its spread is 

 by collecting and burning infected leaves and fruit. 



GOOSEBERRY " CLUSTER-CUP " DISEASE. 



I.— " Cluster-cups " on gooseberry leaf (nat. size); 2. — " Cluster-cups "' on fruit 

 (nat. size); 3. — Rust stage of fungus on leaf of sedge (nat. size); 4. — Same as 

 fig- 3 (slightly magnified) ; 5. — Winter spores produced on sedge leaf (highly 

 mag.); 6. — Summer spores from sedge leaf (highly mag.); 7. —Section of 

 a "cluster-cup" (highly mag.); 8. — Surface view of a "cluster-cup" 

 (slightly mag.). 



Sedges growing in the vicinity of gooseberry bushes should 

 be cut in the spring, before the winter form of the rust matures 

 on the leaves. 



According to a report, in the Labour Gazette (August, 1907), 

 the rates of wages of farm labourers in England and Wales 

 in 1906 were on the whole slightly above 

 Changes in Wages of those paid, in 1905, though in the great 

 Agricultural Labourers majority of rural districts there was no 

 in 1908. change. The increases were reported 



chiefly from the Midland and South- 

 western Counties in England, and from Wales. 



In the following table the changes in wages disclosed by the 

 returns are given in combination with the estimated number 



