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estimated value of the board and lodging has been taken 

 into consideration. Other men frequently received allowances 

 in kind, e.g., free houses, allotments, potatoes or potato 

 ground, meal, milk, beer, fuel, &c, in addition to cash wages, 

 and the value of these has also been included in the average 

 earnings. Speaking generally, the labourers boarded and 

 lodged are unmarried, and those to whom other allowances 

 in kind are granted are married men. 



From the particulars of total annual earnings the average 

 weekly earnings, for the year 1907, of the various classes of 

 agricultural labourers in each county of the United Kingdom 

 have been obtained by dividing the annual amounts by 52, 

 For all classes of labourers combined the average annual 

 earnings and the corresponding weekly amounts, in the four 



countries, were as follows : — 



Total 



Earnings Average 



in the Weekly 



Year. Earnings. 



£ s. s. d. 



England 47 15 18 4 



Wales and Monmouthshire ... 46 16 180 



Scotland 50 19 19 7 



Ireland ... ... ... 29 4 11 3 



In ten counties in the United Kingdom the average weekly 

 earnings were 215, or above, and of these counties three, 

 Durham, Northumberland and Lancashire, were in England, 

 and seven, Dumbarton, Stirling, Lanark, Clackmannan, 

 Fife, Linlithgow and Renfrew, were in Scotland. The five 

 counties in which average earnings were lowest were all in 

 Ireland. 



The county in England with the highest average earnings 

 was Durham, with 225. a week, and the lowest Oxfordshire, 

 with 1 6s. 4#. The county in Wales with the highest average 

 earnings was Glamorganshire, with 19s. 3d., and the lowest 

 Cardiganshire, with 16s. 6ti. In Scotland, Dumbarton had 

 the highest average (21s. fd.) and Caithness the lowest 

 (145. 6d.), In comparing these earnings with those of 

 labourers in industrial towns it should not be forgotten that 

 the rent of cottages is much lower in country villages than 

 in towns. Moreover, the village labourer has opportunities 

 for growing vegetables or of obtaining them at lower prices 

 than the urban workman. 



In England and Scotland agricultural labourers are usually 



