76 AGRICULTURAL WAGES ABROAD. 


The average daily wages for casual labourers at ordinary 
times and at harvest are given below. 
Average Daily Wages Average Daily Wages 
for Ordinary Service. at harvest. 
Without board. With board. Without board. With board. 
Sted: Sif cl: Saas S.. ie 
1875 4 6 3 8 (oe 5 ae 
1885 3 2 92 5 10 4 7 
1890 3 10 2 10 55 4S 
1892 3 10 Zao a 4 3 
In 1892 the range in the wages of day labourers on ordinary 
service without board was from 2s. 7d. in South Carolina to 
7s. 1d. in Washington; with board, from 1s. 104d. in North 
and South Carolina to 5s. 9d. in Washington. The range of 
the averages of harvest wages in the same year for labourers 
without board was from 3s. 11d. in South Carolina to gs. 444d. 
in California and North Dokota and for labourers with board 
2s. 11d.in from Mississippi to 7s. 1d. in California, Minnesota 
and North Dakota. 
It will be noticed that there was a marked reduction in the 
wages paid for agricultural labour in the United States 
between 1875 and 1885, but since’the latter year there has been 
apparently little change, although there has been a con- 
siderable fallin the value of agricultural produce. 
For Denmark certain statistics of wages were published in 
the 7zdskrzft for Landokonomz in 1893. From these it would 
appear that, in that year, the average wages of labourers 
engaged by the day on Danish farms were as under :— 
Summer. Winter. Flarvest. 
Day farm labourers without board - ye Neel! 
S. 
2 
Day farm labourers with board - - I 
53 
83 
For farm labourers engaged by the year, the rates were as 
follows :— 
Total wages 
per annum. 
4, sae 
Adult male labourer = : . - - - If) ‘2390 
Cowman or herdsman — - - - - - - ir 5,96 
Dairymaid_ - - - - - - - - 6 276 
Housemaid - . - - : - - - 5 I3ghee 
In 1893 wages were highest in Fyen, West Jylland, and 
Schleswig, and lowest in Hjorring, Aalborg, and Thisted 
districts. 
