The Beauties of Scotland Author:Robert Forsyth Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 54 r.i.i.A'u !-.-;;,I../l. Population, tatoes planted, one peck of lint-seed sown, harvest meat, i t i—' dunghil fowls allowed to be kept or five shillings. ... more » Shepherds, in general, have the same gains as the hinds, with this variation, that they have a certain number of sheep in place of sheep-money, especially in Lammer- moor. The number of sheep allowed the hinds to be grazed along with the tenant's flock depends on the nature of the pasture. Hedgers are generally employed by the piece. The prices are various according to the nature of the work. Young hedges are cleaned at from three to five shillings per hundred rood ; switched at the same rates when grown up; ditches scoured at from twopence to sixpence the rood ; old hedges cut from a farthing to twopence halfpenny ; dead hedges neatly set at twopence ; paling put up, when the wood is cut and split, at twopence and threepence per rood. Unmarried men engaged for ploughmen or carters have from six to eight pounds a-year, and their victuals in the house ; or, in lieu of victuals, they get a stone of meal and eightpenceper week;. Day-lr.bourers have one shilling a-day ; for some time past they have got twopence and threepence more on account of the labour carrying on in repairing high roads and other causes. Hay-mowing is generally by the piece, from one shilling and threepence to two shillings and sixpence per acre. In harvest, the rate of wages to good reapers, by the day, is from one shilling to one shilling and sixpence ; or from twenty-one shillings to twenty-six shillings for the harvest. A woman-shearer, through the harvest, is reckoned equal to the rent of a cottage and yard ; wages from tenpence to one shilling a-day, or twenty shillings for the harvest. House-maids for farm-work from three to four pounds a-ye...« less