. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. ! OF SiECTION F. 825 tho rate of licli indure the luoiipy future U3e, to be given jpend upon nve in the the annual be ap\)art'nt f money by ; ill f,'voate8t Bd by tli03« p represent:! us year \m uall part nf ,vork of that svork. Thi' in less than liaiul at any iree years nt wit, all thi' ires of every v-o, or, at the ;ws that all value uf 'he ce of compe- i
. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. ! OF SiECTION F. 825 tho rate of licli indure the luoiipy future U3e, to be given jpend upon nve in the the annual be ap\)art'nt f money by ; ill f,'voate8t Bd by tli03« p represent:! us year \m uall part nf ,vork of that svork. Thi' in less than liaiul at any iree years nt wit, all thi' ires of every v-o, or, at the ;ws that all value uf 'he ce of compe- ish relntmhi, |i('tition, tho proportion of pniilnct fulling to thti hihourer steadily incroasiv^. 1 his seems to be a paradox, but an examination of the tables will show the simplo reason. Let the column on page 831, the comparison of 1830 with 1884, bo first cDHsidered. It required ,?332,(i6o in money to construct the mill, with auxiliary liiiildings and dwelling-houses, of a factory of a little over 8,000 si)indles. Such a mill would cost at this time less than one-half as much ; but, by taking the history lit'several separate factories which have never failed and tlie stock of which lia-t never been reduced, it appears that a suHicient proportion of the earnings has been M't aside and expended in the increase of the productive units of tho spindle and th" liiom, to the end that the ratio of dollars has been reduced 7^) per cent., or IVoui »S40 to ^10 per spindle. Each spindle of the greater number has become 22 percent. more etlective. Each spindle and each loom requires less arduous attention. The proportion of operatives per thousand spindles has been reduced 04 per cent., and liie work of tho lesser number is very imieh less severe now than the work of eiicli (it' the larger number was at the beginning. The productive capacity of each of the operatives per day (the day of 1830 having been from 1:5 to 14 liours and the iliiyofl884 being from 10 to 11 hours) has in
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