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1,204,8 ro persons of twelve years old and upwards. Of this 

 number 1,015,799 (558,714 men and 457,085 women) were 

 members of the family usually occupied in agricultural 

 labour. Farm bailiffs, foremen, and the like numbered 

 1,905, and the remaining 187,106 were servants and per- 

 manent day-labourers, 128,277 being men, and 58,829 women. 

 It would thus appear that over 40 per cent, of the persons 

 engaged in agriculture in Belgium are women. 



The average wages paid to men were, without food, about 

 is. jd. a day, and with food njd. a day, corresponding to 

 9s. 6d. and 5s. iod. per week of six days. Women earned on 

 the average about nfd. without food, and 7d. with food, or 

 about 5s. iod. and 3s. 7d. a week respectively. Wages 

 differed considerably in different provinces, varying from an 

 average of us. 8d. per week in Namur to 6s. nd. in Lim- 

 bourg. Women's wages were, however, highest in the pro- 

 vince of Luxemburg, and lowest in Eastern Flanders. 



Comparison with 1890, five years previously, appears to 

 show that these wages have risen, on the whole, by an 

 average of id. per week during the period throughout most 

 of the kingdom. Only in Western Flanders is a decline 

 recorded, while in the province of Luxemburg there has 

 been an increase of something like 6d. per week. 



The British Consul-General at San Francisco, in his Report 



on the trade of that port for the year 1898,. 

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in California. sa ^ s lhat 111 vlew of the numerous 

 instances that have been brought to his 



notice of British subjects having made a failure of the fruit- 

 growing business in Californa, and having ruined themselves 

 by unwise investments in land, he is constrained to reiterate 

 the advice given in former reports to intending settlers. 

 That advice is, not to invest in farming property until they 

 have resided in the State at least one or two years, and have 

 had an opportunity of studying the conditions personally, and 

 of acquiring some practical knowledge of the particular 



