Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . romperfect. The decrease of arable land and the poverty of the farmersgreatly reduced the nmnber of persons employed on the land,and the migration of people from the rural districts to thetowns became excessive. So7ne time before depression com-menced, the employment of women and children in agri-culture had been steadily falling off. The women gave up [ In ) the wheat acreage was l,;t01,038. That of al
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . romperfect. The decrease of arable land and the poverty of the farmersgreatly reduced the nmnber of persons employed on the land,and the migration of people from the rural districts to thetowns became excessive. So7ne time before depression com-menced, the employment of women and children in agri-culture had been steadily falling off. The women gave up [ In ) the wheat acreage was l,;t01,038. That of all corn crops togetherhad declined since 188:) by ,023 acres. Cattle numbered :)rj,] AGRICULTURE. 809 1885] the work when their husbands earned enough to do withouttheir help as wage-earners, and school regulations interferedwith the employment of young children. Between 1S71 andIStsl the number of males of all ages employed on the laudin England and Wales in various capacities fell from 1,200,920to 1,137,810, showing a decrease of 63,110, or 53 per cent.;but about half the decrease consisted of boys under fifteenyears of ago. A mucli greater decrease of labourers over. THE liAD , by special permission of the Proprietors of Ptincli.) fifteen took place after : in the next decade the decreasewas fS2,499, or 77 per cent.^ In Scotland also there was adecrease, but not as great in proportion. Thei-e was no fall inthe rates of wages up to 1885. So long as farming paid fairly, the imjjrovement in agri-culture, which had been active for many years up to 1805,continued its progress, and it was not till after 1879 that anynoticeable check took place. But as the resources of landlords [ In there was a cousidintble further decrease. The total numlier ofpersons employed in agriculture in and Wales in 1801 was .in litOl, fl8S.,S10. The number of wumeu employed, however, increased consider-ably in the decade.] 810 THE
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