246 Changes in Agricultural Wages. [July,; 



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' .According to the information collected by the Labour Depart- 

 ment of the Board of Trade, the rates of wages of farm labourers 

 in England and Wales continued to show 

 Changes in a slight upward tendency in 1904. This 

 ^Wages Fa ^ tendency has been much less marked 

 ' in 1904.* during the past three years than in the five 



years 1897-1901. 

 Wages remained unaltered in districts with 368,780 farm 

 labourers, but they were increased in districts containing 23,778 

 labourers, and reduced in districts containing 9,568. 



In the following Table the figures for various groups of 

 counties arc arranged according to the amounts by which rates 

 of wages were changed. The Table shows that the greatest 

 number of labourers affected in any one district by increased 

 rates of wages was in the Southern and Western counties, where 

 complaints of scarcity of farm labour have been most numerous 

 in recent years. The district most affected by decreases was 



* See also "Harvest Wages in 1904," Journal, November, 1904, Vol. XL, p. 502 



