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weciling in fields got y'-th t>f a rupoc per ilay, or one penny halfpenny, 

 and worked from sunrise to sunset. 



JVages'.at Kurkumh. — At Kurknmb, a Jaglioer (own in lln^ Poonacol- 

 lectorate, in Deoember lS27, I found a husbandry servaul goUingonly 

 twelve rupees per annum, and food twice a day : no clothes. A man 

 watching a tiold of j^^rain was a monthly servant at three rupees amonlh, 

 without food or clutlics. 



Highest ff'jges at Kurlumb. — From the autliorilies of the town I 

 learned that the liighest rife paid for the cleverest gardener's assistant 

 or ploughman was 2o rupees per annum and daily food, but williout 

 clothes. The monthly rates for agricultural servants were fiom24 to 3 

 rupees, without food, orclothes, fee, or advantag<\ 



Pntj of iieijp yst at Jugur. — At Angur, a Brilish town in the Poona 

 collectorate, on the Uth of January, 1828, in looking over the village ac- 

 counts, I found two village seypoys charged respectively three rupees 

 and two rupees for a month's pay. 



JVagcs of Women Labourers at Ponivi — On (he 21st July, 1827, I 

 found a great number of woimni weeding iu g.udens in the neighbour- 

 hood of the city of Poona ; they received each six pice in money, or ^"j-ths 

 of two shillings, (two pence one-third per day,) and worked from day- 

 light until dark. This mav be considered high wages, and its amount is 

 to b'* attribufod to (he paucity of field lab(»tners in a great c i(y. 



Wages at Puit.— A{ Pair, a Jagheer to^n in Pergunnah Kheir, in the 

 Poona collectorate, on the 16th February, 1829, in my evening excursion, 

 1 overtook twelve orfour(een men and women vvitli bundles of wheat in 

 the straw on their heads ; on inquiry 1 found they had been employed 

 as labourers in puUhig up a field of wheat at Pait. Their wages had 

 been five sheav^-s for every hundred gathered ; two or three of the men 

 only had got five sheaves each, the majority of (hem only four, and the 

 women none raore than three. Five sheaves they said would yield 

 about four seers of wheat, and as wheat was selling in Pait at 28 seers 

 per rupee, each nirin with five sheaves received for his labour nine pice, 

 or 3if/. English. These poor peoi)le belonged (o the town of Owsuree, 

 five miles distant from Pait ; they had therefore a march often miles to 

 make besides their day's labour. 



fVages at Joonur. — At the city of Joonur, at the end of February 1829, 

 I found a brahman cultivating the Hubbus Baugh (about 80 beegahs of 

 land): he employed numerous labourers. While I whs encamj)ed near 

 his garden, fields of \\heat, and gram, and Booee Moong*,&c. were harvest- 



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