On Measure Work. 139 
Table of the Value of Labour in Suffolk. 
Wages of a common day-labourer, 10*. a week ; at harvest-time, about 
Zs. dd. a day. 
5. 
a. 
s. 
a. 
Mowing wheat .... 
6 
0 to 
8 
0 
per acre. 
5, barley .... 
2 
0 — 
2 
6 
„ grass .... 
2 
0 — 
2 
6 
15 
,, clos'er and rye-grass 
Reaping wheat .... 
2 
0 
?> 
8 
0 — 
10 
0 
>» 
„ beans .... 
0 
U 
Pitching and loading wheat 
1 
0 
»» 
„ „ barley . 
1 
6 
I> 
tl * '—1* i. i. 
Hoemg, singling out turnips 
o 
0 
0 — 
3 
o 
5» 
„ second time 
2 
6 — 
3 
0 
)l 
„ between drills 
1 
6 
»> 
„ drilled carrots, three times. 
10 
0 — 
15 
0 
»♦ 
„ wheat .... 
2 
6 — 
3 
0 
'» 
„ tares, beans, or peas , 
2 
6 — 
3 
0 
»» 
Pulling and storing swedes in clamps 
<r 
1 
U 
»» 
Laying in turnips 
o 
d 
U 
?> 
Topping and tailing and filling tur-1 
8 
0 
nips into carts . . . j 
»> 
Pulling mangold-wurzel 
5 
0 
»» 
Filling into carts 
2 
0 
»» 
Taking up and topping carrots) 
18 
0 — 
20 
0 
broadcast . . . . f 
,f 
Ditto drilled .... 
12 
0 
»» 
Dibbling wheat, whole setting 
7 
6 — 
8 
0 
n 
„ „ three-quarter setting 
5 
0 
3» 
„ beans and peas 
4 
0 
5» 
Haulming .... 
1 
8 
>1 
raring and burning 
25 
0 — 
30 
0 
9> 
Ploughing .... 
1 
4 
J> 
Harrowing and rolling, each about . 
0 
2 
>5 
Digging 
0 
2 — 
0 
2^ 
a rod square 
Irenching .... 
0 
6 
»» 
Digging in small turnips for seed . 
0 
3 
inatching stacks 
0 
1 
a yard. 
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Common Suffolk draining, 30 inches! 
deep . . . . . j 
4 
0 — 
4 
6 a score rods. 
Tile-draining, 4 feet deep 
0 
6 — 
0 
8 
a rod. 
Cutting down hedge, facing bank,) 
0 
6 — 
0 
8 
and putting on dead fence . . j 
»> 
FiUing clay .... 
0 
2 
per yard cube 
Ditto and spreading clay 
0 
24 - 
0 
3 
Filling muck .... 
2 
0 
score loads. 
Spreading ditto 
1 
6 — 
2 
0 
» 
