616 Agricultural Labour in September. [oct., 



Servia (eight days ending September gth). 



Rabies, Sheep-pox, Swine-fever, Foot-and-Mouth Disease (1,779 



cases in 11 " arrondissements "). 

 Spain (month of July). 



Anthrax, Blackleg, Rabies, Sheep-pox, Sheep-scab, Swine Erysipelas, 



Foot-and-Mouth Disease (15,764 animals), Pleuro-pneumonia, 



Tuberculosis. 

 Sweden (month of August). 



Anthrax, Blackleg, Swine-fever, Swine Erysipelas. 

 Switzerland (week ending September 24th). 



Anthrax, Blackleg, Swine Erysipelas, Foot-and-Mouth Disease (314 



"Stables" and 105 " alpages-Paturages " entailing 11,731 animals, 



of which 83 "Stables" and 7 " alpages-paturages " were declared 



during the week). 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have been furnished by the 

 Board of Trade with the following report, based on returns from corre- 

 spondents in various districts, on the demand 

 Agricultural labour for agricultural labour in September : — 



in England Farm work generally proceeded without 



during September. interruption from bad weather in September, 

 but, owing to the forward state of work, the 

 demand for labourers outside the regular farm staff was considerably 

 reduced in many districts, and a large number of such extra labourers 

 were out of employment during some part of the month. 



Northern Counties. — Farm work was generally in a forward con- 

 dition, on account of the early completion of the corn harvest, and the 

 demand for extra labourers was somewhat reduced in consequence. 

 A surplus of such men was reported in several districts in Yorkshire, 

 but in other districts in these counties the supply was about equal to 

 the demand. The principal kinds of work for which extra men were 

 wanted in September were, apart from completing the corn harvest, 

 thatching stacks, threshing, carting, and spreading manure, taking 

 up potatoes, trimming hedges, and cleaning out watercourses. 



Midland Counties. — Extra labourers were, on the whole, in excess 

 of the demand in these counties, there being little or no hoeing to be 

 done on the root crops, which had suffered much from the dry weather. 

 In certain districts, however, these men obtained fairly regular employ- 

 ment at such work as threshing, carting manure, hedging, and 

 ditching. 



Eastern Counties. — There was a fair demand for extra labourers 

 in these counties for threshing, potato-lifting, manure carting, hedging, 

 &c, and the supply of such men was generally taken up. Some sur- 

 plus, however, was reported in several districts, including the Erping- 

 ham, Smallburgh, and Swaffham Rural Districts in Norfolk, and the 

 Braintree Rural District in Essex. In the Rochford Rural District in 

 Essex some scarcity of extra men was reported. 



Southern and South- Western Counties. — According to the reports 

 received, there was a fair demand for extra labourers in Kent, Wilt- 

 shire, and Cornwall ; but in the other counties the drought caused a 

 smaller demand, and a certain amount of irregular employment. 



