§ (Information supplied by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Department of Agriculture for Scotland.)
| 1. Numbers of Regular Male Employés on agricultural holdings above 1 acre. | ||
| Date. | Great Britain. | Scotland. |
| June, 1913 | 609,137 | 101,137 |
| June, 1925 | 662,059 | 82,646 |
| June, 1935 | 597,542 | 79,751 |
§ Note.—The figures given for 1913 are not strictly comparable with those for 1925 and 1935, since the returns received for 1913 excluded the occupier and all members of his family, while in those for 1925 and 1935 the occupier and his wife were excluded but other members of his family, working on the holding, were included.
§ Agricultural Wages.
§ England and Wales.—No precise statistics are available of the actual wages of agricultural workers. Estimates of the wages of ordinary adult male agricultural workers immediately prior to the war indicate that in 1914 the weekly cash wage for such workers averaged about 16s. 9d. and that in addition the workers received allowances in kind valued on the average at about 1s. 3d. a week, making a total average wage of 18s. Since 1924 agricultural wages have been regulated 966W under the Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Act and the average of the weekly minimum rates for ordinary adult male workers fixed by the Agricultural Wages Committees over England and Wales as a whole was 30s. 11d. in 1925 and 31s. 8d. in 1935. These averages take no account of overtime or special seasonal earnings nor of the higher rates applicable in many cases to workers employed in tending animals.
§ Scotland.—The average weekly wages of married ploughmen and cattlemen in 1925 and 1935, including the value of payments in kind, are estimated to have been approximately as follow:
| Ploughmen. | Cattlemen. | |||
| s. | d. | s. | d. | |
| 1925 | 38 | 4 | 39 | 1 |
| 1935 | 34 | 0 | 35 | 5 |
§ Comparable figures are not available for 1913.
§ Note.—The Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Act, 1924, does not apply to Scotland.