176 EARNINGS OF AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. 
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Average Weekly Hscesde 
County. Rates of Cash Earnings(includ- ese en 
Wages paid jing the Value of cee 
throughout Allowances in = 
the Year. Kind). 
Southern and South Western Counties : Seats B65 5Gle Sud. 
Kent - - - - - - - - =| 16 4 Ig I0 3.6 
Surrey - - - - - - : = 15 7 19 oO 3.5 
Sussex - - - - - ee itis - I4 2 | 17 10 3 8 
Hampshire - - - - - - : 1 fs) 16 7 se fauit 
Berkshire - - - - - - - - ay 3 5 ee 2 0 
Wiltshire - - - - - - - - iI 9 i510 ae 
Dorsetshire - - - - - - - iz 8 14 9 Spe 
Somersetshire - - - - - - - 12 6 I5 10 34 
Herefordshire - - - - - - - 12 8 I5 10 Bez 
Monmouthshire - - - - - - T4 7 | 15 8 2 BY. 
Gloucestershire - - - : - - LEO I5 1 ee) 
Devonshire - - - = - - = TA) ini 16 4 3.5 
Cornwall - - - : - - . - mg} 16 5 ZY 




* The figures for Northumberland and Durham relate to hinds and for Cumberland and Westmor- 
jand to married labourers. The rates of cash Wages given for these four counties are the predomi- 
nant rates according to Returns from Chairmen of District Councils, while the figures as to earnings 
are estimated on the basis of information furnished by representative employers of labour. Spade 
hinds in Northumberlaad may be taken to frequently. earn 3d. a week more than the amount quoted. 
The figures for earnings include every payment, whether in 
cash or kind, made to the labourers: a money value has been 
attached to such allowances as were not in cash, and free 
cottages have been valued tothe labourer at £4 a year through- 
out. It will be observed that the range in weekly earnings was 
from 14s.5d.in Suffolk to 20s. 9d. in Durham. The highest aver- 
age weekly earnings were obtained‘in the northern counties. 
wherealso the highest cash wages were paid. In allthe counties 
north of the Humber and Mersey the earnings were upwards 
of 18s. per week, and also in Cheshire, Derby, Nottingham, 
Kent, Middesex, and Surrey. The lower scale of earnings 
prevailed largely in the arable counties, but in some of the 
grazing counties ofthe west and south-west they were almost 
equally low. For example, in Norfolk, Oxford, Suffolk, and 
Dorset, which are almost exclusively agricultural, the earn- 
ings were lowest—14s., and under 15s. per week—and these 
rates were only exceeded by a shilling in the counties of Essex, 
