838 Earnings of Agricultural Labourers, [jan.. 



The minimum staff, which should consist of an agricultural 

 organiser or adviser, an horticultural instructor, and, in most 

 counties, a dairying instructor, would require to be supple- 

 mented by competent scientific investigators from a Univers- 

 ity or Agricultural College, and instructors in special branches 

 of agriculture. 



The Report then proceeds to define the duties and quali- 

 fications of the above-mentioned staff, and gives some speci- 

 mens of the existing staffs of typical counties. 



The Board of Trade have published a Report relating to 



the earnings of agricultural labourers in 1907 (Cd. 5460, 



price 8Jd.). This Report is the third 

 Earnings of which hag been published by the Board 

 Agricultural 



Labourers. of Trade on tne wages, earnings and 



conditions of employment of agricul- 

 tural labourers in the United Kingdom ; the first having 

 related to the year 1898 and the second to 1902. The latter 

 Report gave a considerable amount of detail in regard to the 

 conditions of employment on individual farms, but in view 

 of the very slight changes which have since taken place it 

 has not been thought necessary to repeat this information. 



The number of farmers who have rendered returns for the 

 present Report is nearly 15,800, and the number of labourers 

 whose earnings have been stated is over 78,000. These 

 figures are more than twice as great as those of the preceding 

 Enquiries, and represent all districts of the United Kingdom. 

 As in the two previous Reports, the average earnings stated 

 are those of adult male farm servants regularly employed, 

 the earnings of lads, women and girls having been excluded, 

 and also those of men temporarily engaged at the busy 

 seasons of the year. 



The returns received from the farmers gave the weekly, 

 half-yearly, or yearly rates of cash wages in 1907 at which 

 the men were engaged and the total amount of cash actually 

 paid to them in the year, the latter amount including all 

 extra payments at hay and corn harvests, piece-work earn- 

 ings, overtime money, journey money, lamb money, &c. 

 The rates of pay of men provided with board and lodging by 

 their employers were distinguished from those of the men 

 not so provided, and in computing the average earnings the 



