TABLE VI.—Showing the rates of wages paid for agricultural labor, &c.—Continued. *Tables VI, VII, and VIII are taken from Arthur Young's Northern Tour, Vol. IV, pp. 442, 447, and 470 Under the general term "winter" Mr. Young includes the entire year, with the exception of hay. time and harvest, to which he assigns, respectively, six weeks and five weeks. TABLE VII.-Showing the yearly wages of different classes of farm-servants, and the weekly wages of women employed in field-work in 1768 at various places in England. * Under the general term "winter," Mr. Young includes the entire year with the exception of hay. time and harvest, to which he assigns, respectively, six weeks and five weeks. TABLE VIII.—Showing the weekly wages of operatives in various industries at different places in England in the year 1768. TABLE IX.-Showing the price of meat (chiefly of mutton) at different dates from A. D. 1596 to A. D. 1734, inclusive. MUTTON. 1596. A whole mutton A fat wether 1597. A fore-quarter of mutton.. A fat wether, in wool A fat sheep.... £. 8. d. 0 18 0 0 15 0 050 0 18 0 0 14 0 1610. A mutton weighing 44 pounds or 46 pounds, the stone, (8 pounds).. 0 2 3 A lamb 1618. A leg of mutton A mutton..... 1660 to 1690. Mean price of mutton, the stone, (8 pounds) 1700. Live sheep, the pound, from... 1710. Beef, the pound.. Veal, ditto...... Mutton, ditto... Lamb, ditto 1706 to 1730. Mutton, the stone 1730 to 1760. Mutton, the stone 1734. Mutton at Smithfield market, the stone 068 0 1 10 0 10 0 014 0 0 2 to 3 0 0 1% 0 0 2 002 0 0 2% 018 020 009 TABLE X.-Showing the prices paid by the British Victualing Office for beef, pork, and butler, and for Cheshire and Suffolk cheese, from 1740 to 1795. NOTE.-These prices are considerably lower than the price paid by the consumer, which, in 1795, was about 7d. a pound for beef and mutton; they, however, show the proportion between the prices of different periods. In the price per pound fractions less than one-fourth are omitted. |