164 Agriculture of Nottin(jhamshire. 
The following is a statement of the wages paid to labourers on 
the said farm of 400 acres, in the year ending the 25th March, 
1861, which do not exceed the average of wages paid to each 
man for agricultural labour in the North Midland counties, 
ll orkshire and Lincolnshire. The men were employed partly 
by the day and partly by piece-work. There is full and constant 
employment, and an industrious labourer having a small working 
family is enabled to save money, < 
Labourers employed. 
Year's 
Average 
No. 
Days 
em- 
ployed. 
Wages 
received. 
Average 
per Day. 
Receipt, 
including 
for Family. 
per Week 
during 
the Year. 
Remarks. 
£. 
d. 
s. 
d. 
£. 
s. d. 
£. s. 
d. 
^'Cowman, occupies a cottage 
and garden rent free, and 
1 
313 
■ 28 
12 
0 
1 
10 
43 
1 01 
0 16 
11 
J bas milk and I'uel, &c., and 
is paid for the board of a 
[ servant. 
2 
293 
38 
13 
0 
2 
-1 
52 
19 11 
1 0 
»\ 
303 
37 
0 
2 
2 
5| 
52 
13 4 
1 0 
3 
29U 
39 
11 
3 
2 
8.-V 
41 
13 10 
• 0 16 
Oh 
5 
6 
304| 
298i 
37 
37 
6 
5 
5 
7 
2 
o 
5i 
6J 
0 14 
0 14 
4i 
4 
) Kegular labourers. 
7 
304 
35 
11 
8 
2 
4 
0 13 
8 
8 
SOU 
32 
16 
8 
2 
2 
0 12 
7i 
9 
246 
29 
2 
8 
2 
4i 
^1 
0 13 
6J 
A quart of table-beer is allowed to each man daily, and ale in hay time and 
harvest, and when employed in extra work. Two .old men are also employed 
on the farm at the average wages of about 10s. each per week. 
The wages of women are 10c/. a day, and Is. 6rf. a day for harvest-work. 
The yearly rent paid by a labourer for a cottage and good 
garden varies from 21. lis. to 4/., the lowest rents being paid to 
the owners of great estates. The cottages generally are kept in 
a cleanly state ; and although some of them are too small for large 
families, they are not so over-crowded as in some parts of Eng- 
land. 
Full and regular employment is now given to the labouring popu- 
lation in and near those parishes at good wages, and the actual relief 
paid to the poor has much decreased. In one of the said parishes, 
containing more than 1500 acres of strong land, more than half 
arable, the produce of which has been much increased by drainage, 
the amount paid for the relief of the poor in the year ending 1836 
exceeded 2s. per acre ; whilst on an average for the three years to 
Lady-day, 1860, the yearly amount paid for the relief and main- 
tenance of the poor has not exceeded 51^/. an acre, in consequence 
of regular employment being given to the labourers. The present 
Poor Law has not benefited the occupiers in agricultural parishes 
where there was previously good and proper management in 
