140 
On Measure fVork. 
Turning inuck-heaps 
Turning over farm-yard dung 
Picking down and turning over) 
compost-heaps . . .J 
Threshing wheat 
„ barley 
„ oats 
„ beans and peas 
Trussing hay . 
Picking stones 
Riving wood . 
Shearing sheep — ewes 
„ hoggets 
„ fat sheep & rams 
*. 
d. 
s. 
d. 
8 
0 — 
12 
0 
each. 
1 
0 
score loads. 
9 
»» 
2 
6 — 
3 
0 
a quarter. 
1 
6 — 
2 
0 
1 
0 — 
1 
4 
» 
I 
0 — 
1 
6 
>> 
1 
6 — 
2 
0 
a Ion. 
0 
10 — 
1 
0 
a load. 
3 
6 — 
5 
0 
a stack. 
3 
6 
a score. 
4 
6 
5 
0 
» 
Note by Lord Portman. 
There are two points in the ordinary management of task- 
work which require, I think, some further consideration. I mean 
the practice of leaving the price of a job to be fixed at its conclu- 
sion, and of drenching the men with liquor to superinduce undue 
exertion. I have found that measure-work, if it be well regulated, 
is an admirable system ; but that the greatest evil results from 
a delay in fixing the price of the job. I am aware that it is often 
impossible for the master or the man to make a bargain until one 
day of trial has been fairly made ; and I am aware that sometimes 
accidental circumstances are developed during the progress of the 
work which may render the best considered bargains unfair, and 
therefore not to be insisted upon ; — but as a general rule the price 
should be fixed before the work is begun for any measure-work, 
in which both parties have had sufficient experience to guide 
them ; and on the second day after it is begun, when either 
party requires a trial to guide him in fixing the price. The 
questions for the master to determine are — What is the job worth 
to me? — What will it cost me at day-work? — What additional 
cost is it worth if it is finished in a shorter time than men at day- 
work will complete it in ? The questions for the labourer are — 
How much can I earn in a day at day-work? — How much at 
this job, with my usual exertion ? — How much can I better my 
income by some extra time, and some greater exertion, if I take 
this job ? 
Turnip-hoeing, reaping, mowing, threshing, turning manure- 
heaps, &c., admit of some standard of value on every farm ; 
but each job requires to be viewed before the actual price is fixed 
to regulate any variation from the standard that accidents in each 
year may create. Moving earth, chalking, digging ditches, &c.. 
