Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1848-05-10
WAGES OF LABOR.

Patents contains an extended tabular
statement of the prices paid 10 farm la
borers and to mechanics in the. various
counties Of the different States of the
Union. The facts thus presented must
be interesting to out readers generally,
and we give the substance Of them in a
condensed form:
FARM LABoRERs,--Maine, northern
paris, Sl2 to SIS per monik; N. Hamp-
shire aud Vermont S12 per month; !;
Massachusetts, western, Sll per month;
New York, mostly $40 pc, month, of
ten Sl2 per month, a very few IS per
month; New Jersey, S15 per month,
and mol boarded; Pennsylvania, mostly
Sl0to Sl2 per month; Maryland, SIS to
$40 per month; 81 TO SO cents per day;
Virginia, southern, S5 per month !;
northwestern, $40 per monIlI; North
Carolina, nor.hern and central. 81 to-
$8 per month; western, 30 TO rs cents
i;sTss ortfwestern, oo-rv9To
per month; white. ,aberers, SIS pei
month; Georgia, northwestern, S15sper
month, or IS cents per day; Alabama,'
southern, 80 cents per day; northern,
25 cents day, central, SO cents a.day;
Mississippi, colored, so cents day !;
white, Sl2 to S15 per month and found;
newer parts, so cents per day; Tennes-,
see, western So TO els per month; east.
.ern, s1o 10 S12 per month; Ohio, most
ly $40 per month. rather higher in the
southern parts; Indiana, SO 10 Sl0per
month; Illinois, central and southern,
SO to $40 per month; northern, SIS to
S2O per month; Michigan, very varia
BILE, average about S1l per month; To-
wa, about $3.50 per month.
As a general average, wages are high
er in more newly settled regions, espe-
cially where emig' alton is rapid and en-
terprise considerable; in older country
places The wages are lower, except near
cities, where they are high. In the
slayeholding States wages a'e generally
considerably Low er than elsewhere, with
the exception of the sugar region in LODI
isiana and the more southern, newer and
cotton producing portions. To these
general remarks there ale Of course ex-
sceptions.
MEcHANIcs.-In the more northern
and eastern States, the daily wages are
from 81 Sl.25, being higher in cities.
In the more norlhern slave States wages
arc not quite SO high. In the newer
slave States the wages ofmechauics are
higher, varying from 81 10, 81. In The
western States the price is generally va.
riable, being from75 cents to 81 pei
day; scarcity in supply tending to ad.
vance The price; wi,h-ihe low price o.
provisions and consequent higher rate:
of money, has a contrary tendency.
In England the average wages of Z
iaborer are 40 cents per day, but The
standard varies greatly. The Noting
ham stocking weavers, in an address ,t
the public, stating that after telling from
Ia to 16 hours per day, they could earl
only from 81 10 Sl,25 per week, ant
were obliged to subsist on bread ant
water, or potatoes and salt.
In Ireland, the average price OF com
mon labor is from ten to twelve cent
per day. In France, the common wa
ges of hired laborer is 637.l5 for
man, and S1S.75 for woman, annual
ly; the taxes upon which are equal Il
one-fiilh of The nett product. In SOM
parts Of in,tia, where the laborcrs wan
but a little rice and salt, tho common
wages are as low as FIVE cenls'a day.
is better to cut grain just before
IS fully or dead ripe. When the stray
Immediately below the grain is SO dr.
that on twisting it no juice is extracted
il should be cut, for there is thea n
further circulation Of juice to The ear.
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