Note 37 — Chapter VI

According to Arthur Young’s estimates, the earnings of an agricultural family, consisting of seven persons all capable of work, would be about fifty-one pounds annually. This gives a little over seven pounds a head; but when the children and others not capable of work are taken into account the average is considerably lower. The wages, however, of the artisan class being higher, the average amount per head taken by the whole working population would be about seven pounds.