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614 VI. AGRICDLTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING OF SWEDEN.
Table 84. Farming wages. In kronor à 1* i o shill. or 0-2 68 dollar.
Average
for the
years
Yearly salary,
besides room
and board, for
Mila
•errant.
Female
aerraat.
Value of entire
pay (wages and
provisions).
[-Tenement-la-]
{+Tene-
ment-
la+} bourer.
Id.
female.
Summer-wages
per day for
Winter-wages ! For 300
work-per day for | days.*
Man. I Woman. . Man. Woman., Man. Woman.
1866/70. 103 46 280 175 1 15 062 075 0’42 285 156
1871/75.. I 154 61 375 214 182 0 86 1 20 0 60 453 219
187680. 153 64 378 221 1’62 083 110 068 408 212
1881/85.. 153 66 366 213 1 55 0 88 104 057 389 210
1886/90. 149 69 366 209 1-58 091 1-04 Ofil i) 393 228
1891/95.. 173 84 404 225 1 78 102 I 121 071 j| 449 260 ,
1896 00 . 205 103 456 253 2 05 , 1 15 J| 142 0 81 ’i 520 294
In 1900.. 228 114 4% , 276 228 | 128 I 158 ; 0 90 j 572 320
the case, in consequence of which complaints of a want of agricultural
hands have made themselves heard in all directions. The explanation
of the matter is naturally to be found in the immigration of the
country population to the towns, and also by the emigration abroad.
But another important cause is also that, as has been shown in the
first part of this work, the able-bodied part of the population is nowadays
unusually small, relatively speaking, in our land — from causes,
too, which are independent of emigration. But as these last-named
causes are, however, occasional and temporary, the want of
agricultural hands which is complained of, will probably be remedied by
degrees — at least as far as the economical development of the
work can keep pace with the increased demands in the question of wages.
A detailed examination of the conditions of life among agricultural
labourers was made some years ago by Captain U. von Feilitzes,
at the expense of the Lorén Foundation. The examination, which
embraced different country-districts in Östergötland, Småland, and Skåne,
has given, as its chief result, the figures in the following Table.
Table 85. Economic condition of agricultural labourers.
Total number of cases investigated. Per cent. 1
Groups. WeU to-do. Pretty well to-do. Poor, j Total. WeU to-do. Pretty well to-do. 1 1 Poor. • Total. !
I ’ 1
Craftsmen .............. 1,288 1,040 294 2,622 49’1 39 7 11 2 IN
Crofters.................. 5,769 7,018 3,907 i 16,6*4 34 6 42 0 i 23 4 I IN
Labourer crofters ... 218 639 431 , 1,288 16 9 49 6 I 33 5 IN
Tenement-laboarers .. 281 1,292 841 I 2,414 11’7 53 6 I 34 8 , IN
Day-labonrers.......... 456 797 489 j 1,742 26 2 45 8 | 280 | IN
Total 8,612 10,786 5,962 | 24,76* 32 8 43 6 24 1 | IN
* According to previously given day-wages in summer and winter, counting 150j
of either.
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