110 The Alteration in the Distribution of the Agricultural 
Reports of the Assistant Commissioners on the Duke of Rich- 
mond's Commission, but, as will be noticed, there are no returns 
for Cheshire or Rutland. So far as possible, I have taken the 
ordinary money-wages only, and have not added anything for 
harvest money, or for the value of a cottage or garden, or allot- 
ment, or for beer or other allowances, which, or some of which, 
must be added to the ordinary money-wages if we wish to 
arrive at the actual payment that the ordinary agricultural 
labourer in England receives for the work that he does. 
The table shows that the agricultural labourers in every or 
nearly every county in England (except in those for which, as I 
have above pointed out, no comparison can be made — and there 
is no reason to doubt that the increase took place in them as well 
as in the rest) received higher money-wages in 1881 than they 
did in 1871. The increase, however, seems to have been greater 
in some counties than in others ; and in some of those in which 
it was the least, the decrease in the number of the labourers was^ 
very high, if not the highest. Thus there was only a shilling 
a week rise in the wages paid in Huntingdonshire, where the 
decrease in the number of labourers was the most ; and, on the 
other hand, there was a rise of 2s. to 4s. a week in the wages in 
the North Riding, but only a small (under 5 per cent.) decrease 
in the number of labourers in that county. 
In Wales the difference between the percentages of the de- 
crease in the number of farmers and in the number of labourers 
is very considerable. Thus, in 2 only out of the 12 coun- 
ties of the Principality is the decrease in the number of the 
farmers more than 10 per cent. ; but the labourers decreased 
by that percentage in no less than 11 out of the 12 counties, 
and in 3 out of those 11 counties their decrease was over 20 
per cent. In two counties only was the percentage of the' de- 
crease in the number of farmers and labourers anything like 
equal, viz. in Carnarvonshire, where the farmers decreased in 
number 4*8 per cent, and the labourers 4-9 per cent. ; and in 
Glamorganshire, where the farmers decreased in number 10 
per cent, and the labourers 11*2 per cent. In most of the 
Welsh counties the difference in the percentages of decrease was 
very wide. Thus in Anglesey the farmers decreased in number 
3"G per cent., but the labourers 11'6 per cent. ; in the county of 
Brecon the farmers decreased in number 9-7 per cent., but the 
labourers 25*2 per cent. ; in the county of Cardigan the farmers 
decreased in number 2*7 per cent., but the labourers 17*8 per 
cent. ; and in Radnorshire the farmers decreased in number 
14*5 per cent., but the labourers 24-6 per cent. Any comparison 
between the farmers and farm-labourers in Wales, however, is of 
very little value, for, as my late colleague (Mr. Doyle) observes 
in his Report to the Royal Commission on Agriculture, " the 
