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witnesses gave evidence : — Mr. G. Lewin, Superintending 

 Analyst at the Government Laboratory ; Mr. R. Ban- 

 nister, late Deputy Principal of the same Department ; 

 Dir. J. C. Lovell, representative of the London Chamber of 

 Commerce ; Mr. Harald Faber, Agricultural Commissioner 

 to the Danish Government ; Mr. E. Mathews, on behalf ot 

 the English Jersey Cattle Society ; Miss Maidment, of the 

 Dairy School of the Durham County Council ; Mr. R, 

 Drummond, of the Kilmarnock Dairy School ; and repre- 

 sentatives of Messrs. J. and J. Lonsdale (Liverpool), and ot 

 the Home and Colonial Stores. 



Spring and Summer Hirings in Scotland. 



The Labour Gazette for August last states that at the 

 principal hiring fairs between the months of February and 

 July this year the increase which took place in the spring and 

 summer of 1900 in wages obtained by farm servants has been 

 generally well maintained. In many cases there was a 

 further rise, particularly in the case of women and of men 

 having women workers in their families. 



At the early spring hiring fairs in the Border counties and 

 theLothians/where the system largely prevails of families being, 

 engaged to work on the same farms, wage^ frequently had an 

 upward tendency in the case of ploughmen who could provide 

 women workers. The wages of ploughmen generally varied 

 between 15s. and 20s. a- week, married men getting in addition 

 various allowances in kind. The higher wages are mostly 

 paid in the Lothians, but in these counties fewer allowances in 

 kind are generally given than in the Border counties. Sons 

 living with their parents are sometimes paid entirely in cash, 

 and sometimes they get an allowance in potatoes and less 

 money. Women workers usually receive from 9s. to 1 is. a 

 week, with extra money at harvest, and sometimes at potato 

 lifting. 



In other parts of Scotland at the half-yearly hirings, first 

 horsemen as a rule got £16 to £20 for the half year, and other 



