Agricultural Wages in 1901. 



95 



affected shows a falling off as compared with 1898, 1899, and 

 1900. 



The following table shows the net effect of the yearly 

 changes in England and Wales in each year, in districts 

 where changes were recorded, from 1895 inclusive. 









Average Amount of 







Total Number of 



Change in I Weekly Cash 





Year. 



Labourers in 



Wages per head of 

 Labourers in Districts 

 Affected. 







Districts Affected. 







No. 



d. 



1895 





119,890 



Si 



1896 





99,329 



1 



1897 





87,385 



6i 



1898 





217,037 



8 



1899 





195439 



8 



8* 

 54 



1900 





281,262 



1901 





172 542 



The Eastern and Midland counties, as usual, reported a 

 greater number of changes than all the remaining counties 

 of England and Wales together. The number of farm 

 labourers in districts affected by changes in wages in this 

 group of counties was 95,935 or 55*6 per cent, of the total 

 number of labourers in all districts affected. Of the 95,935 

 men, 83,744 were in districts in which there was an average 

 increase of 6d. per head per week, and 12,191 in districts in 

 which wages fell 9 Jd. per head per week. The net effect of 

 all the changes reported in the Eastern and Midland counties 

 was an average increase of 4d. per head per week, as 

 compared with the net advances of 9jd. in the Northern 

 counties, 8|d. in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 

 6 Jd. in the Southern and South- Western counties, and 8^d. in 

 Wales. 



As regards Scotland, the increased rates of wages obtained 

 in the previous year were, generally speaking, well main- 

 tained at the hirings held between February and July 1901, 

 and in many cases wages rose still further, particularly in 

 the case of women and of men having " women workers " in 

 their families. At the hiring fairs held during the latter half 

 of the year there was but little change in wages, and in nearly 



