518 AGRICULTURAL WAGES IN ONTARIO. 


to 78,000,000 lbs. took place in 1895 ; since that year, however, 
the export has again rapidly increased, and in 1899 exceeded 
142,000,000 Ibs. New York is the principal port of shipment 
for oleo oil, but large quantities are sent from Baltimore. 
The chief purchaser of this product from the United States is. 
the Netherlands, the consignments to Dutch ports in 1899 
having been over 86,000,000 lbs., or 60 per cent. of the entire 
oxport of that year. In the same year Germany took over 
28,000,000 Ibs., or about 20 per cent., and the remainder was. 
distributed toSweden, Norway, the United Kingdom, Den- 
mark, Belgium, and a few other countries. 

The Ontario Department of Agriculture publishes in its 
November Crop Bulletin the average 
Agricultural rates of wages paid in the province to 
> EE OEe farm labourers in 1900, These rates 
in Ontario. 
were based on the annual returns made 
by the farmers at the beginning of July. The rate for yearly 
engagements, with board, was £32 5s. 9d.,or £51 13s. 4d. 
without board. These rates are rather above those of the 
previous four years, which ranged from £30 in 1896 to 
2 cOs wal oueeetia 1899 ; whilst the payments without board 
‘were £50 128. 6d. in 1896 and 1899, and £40 3s. 4d. and 
#51 58. in 1897 and 1898. The monthly wages in 1900 were 
also the highest in the quinquennium, being £3 9s. with 
board, and £5 7s. 2d. without board, as compared with 
$3 4s. 1d. and £5 3s. rod. in 1899. Domestic servants on 
the farms averaged. 27s.. 8d. per. month for 1900, against 
25s. gd. in 1899. 
