WAGES.

For labor on a farm, per year, from $50.00 to $75.00

For labor on a farm, per month, from. 5.00 to 7.50

For labor on a farm, per day, except in

harvest and haying, from .25 to .37 1/2

Per day for cradling grain $0.62 1/2

Per day for mowing grass .50

Baking and binding after a cradler .62 1/2

Baking only after a cradler .25

Binding after a cradler .37 1/2

Cutting timber and splitting it into rails, per hundred .37 1/2

Splitting rails, per hundred .18 3/4

Crackling or breaking flax per hundred hands full .12 1/2

Swingling flax per lb. about .03

Spinning it for common wear per lb. (women's work) .12 1/2

Weaving linen for every day wear per yard about .04

Linsey-Woolsey per yard about .07

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