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GENERAL AGRICULTURAL NOTES. 



[June 1895. 



cashire, Cheshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Suffolk, Essex, 

 Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Bedfordshire, Hertford- 

 shire, and Kent. 



In some parts of Lancashire, wages of day labourers changed 

 in March from 15s. to 18s. a week, and wages throughout the 

 Fylde and Garstang Unions ranged from 16s. to 20s. Satis- 

 factory reports as regards employment were furnished from 

 Northumberland, Cumberland,, Westmorland, Durham, Cheshire, 

 and Derbyshire, and from certain districts in the unions of York, 

 Malton, and Easingwold. The wages of day men in the Penrith 

 district of Cumberland ranged in March from 12s. to 14s. with 

 food, this being a rise of from 2s. to 3s. a week, while in the 

 Nantwich and Tarvin Unions of Cheshire, they had risen from 

 14s. and 15s. to between 16s. and 18s. 



Employment is reported to have been regular during the 

 month of April in certain unions in Shropshire, Nottinghamshire^ 

 and Rutland. Eqiiallj^ satisfactory conditions appear to have 

 prevailed in Northamptonshire and Worcestershire. In Warwick- 

 shire, work was regular in the Alcester Union during April, but 

 some men are stated to have been in want of work at Stratford- 

 on-Avon. Reports furnished from certain districts in Hunting- 

 donshire indicated that employment was of a satisfactory nature. 

 The information relating to wages in the midland counties 

 showed that there had been a rise of one to two shillings a week 

 in the wages of ordinary labourers. 



As regards the eastern counties, it is stated that work was 

 regular in all the unions of Lincolnshire and in most of those 

 in Norfolk, to which the reports related. In Essex, satisfactory 

 reports as regards regularity of employment were received from 

 certain districts in the Tendring, Braintree, and Colchester 

 Unions, but in a few parishes, some men were reported to be in 

 want of work. In Suffolk, there seems to have been regular 

 employment for able-bodied men. A few reports from several 

 parishes mentioned some slight irregularity of employment. 

 There was no want of employment in Cambridgeshire. In most 

 districts in the eastern counties from which reports were received, 

 there had been a rise in wages of Is. to 2s., and in some parts of 

 Lincolnshire of Is. 6d. per week. 



The information collected for the home counties showed that, 

 on the whole, employment had been generally satisfactory, 

 although, in a few districts, men were reported to be in irregular 

 work. In some of the unions of Bedford and Hertfordshire there 

 had been a rise in wages of Is. a week. In two parishes in the 

 Hollingbourne Union in Kent, a rise in wages is reported of 3s. 

 to 48. per week. 



In two unions in Dorset, and three in Wilts, work was regular, 

 and similar reports were received from districts in Gloucester- 

 shire, Somerset, and Cornwall, although at Camborne, in the 

 Redruth Union of that county, some labourers are said to have 

 been in irregular work in the month of April. 



