EARNINGS OF AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. 175 

from the Chairmen of Rural District Councils as well as from 
employers. | 
According to the returns furnished to the Department the 
average weekly rate of cash wages and the total average 
weekly earnings, including the value of allowances in kind, 
of ordinary agricultural labourers in England in 18098 were 
as shown below :— 



Average Weekly 
Excess of 
County. Rates of Cash |Earnings(includ- Dateaniales 
Wages paid ing the Value of| Med ae 
throughout Allowances in 2 
the Year. Kind). 
Northern Counties : Ss Gk Sade s. d. 
Northumberland - - - - -- + 7 BO Be 3,2 
Durham - - : - - - - TOMO 20 Q* 2 ©) 
Cumberland and Westmorland Soa) ale - 7 Os TOMO Ln 
Lancashire - - - - . - - ni} 7 i 19 4 x @ 
Yorkshire, East Riding - - - : - TiS! 18 6 g. 2 
os North Riding - - - - - 7 18 8 im {3 
50 West Riding - ae - - - 16 4 SHE 7, D 
Midland and Eastern Counties : 
Derbyshire - - - : - : - 18 2 0) Ti I 9 
Cheshire - - - - - ; - . 16 2 18 o I 10 
Nottinghamshire - - - - - - 16 7 19g 2 BG] 
Leicestershire and Rutland - - - - LSme 17 2 2 0 
Staffordshir = - - - - - : - Tas 17 It 2 6 
Shropshire - or ace 5 : - - TAT 17 5 . ame 
Worcestershire - - - = : - TASS tg 2IaIsh 
Warwickshire - - - - - : - 14 8 16 2 zr © 
Oxfordshire - = Sa - - - 12) 4 14 8 2 7 
Northamptonshire - - - - - - TANS 16 8 23 
Buckinghamshire - - - - : - 73 fl Wg & I 10 
Middlesex - : - - : = - - 7a) TOMS 2G 
Hertfordshire - - - - - - : T2) 11 TOME 2 D 
Bedfordshire - - - - : - - T2 II 16 2 3 3 
Huntingdonshire - - - - : - 12 II TESA B & 
Cambridgeshire - : : - - : Teed TOMS Aner 
Lincolnshire’ - - - J's - - 14 10 | 1G) 1) iti 
Norfolk - : - - - - - - LLL | 14 9 BD ii | 
Suffolk  - - - - - - - - im § | TAN 3.0 
Essex - - - - . - - : 11} 5] | 15 6 | 2 eit 



