| | | | | | Children of 11 and 8 2 0 | | | | | | ----- | | | | | | £14 10 | | | | | | |It could subsist. The agriculturists in | | | | | | |the southern provinces on potatoes and | | | | | | |salt fish, in the northern, on porridge | | | | | | |and rye bread; the artisans on better | | | | | | |food than the agriculturists, with | | | | | | |coffee, and occasionally fresh meat. | | | | | | | Count Forsell’s Statement, p. 380 |The support of a cottager’s household, consisting of husband, wife, |and three children, in the middle part of Sweden, costs yearly about |146⅔_r.d._, according to the prices of last year; the husband being |occupied during the whole year, and his wife having enough to do with |the care of her children, so that neither she nor her husband can |calculate on any additional earnings. | |The labourer receives 2½ barrels of rye, or in money 16_r.d._ |32_sk._; 1 barrel of corn, 5_r.d._ 16_sk._; half barrel of pease, |3_r.d._ 16_sk._; half ditto of malt, 2_r.d._ 32_sk._; 2 ditto |potatoes, 2_r.d._; 1½ lb. salt, 32_sk._; 4 lbs. herrings, 2_r.d._ |16_sk._; 1 lb. of butter, 4_r.d._ 16_sk._; 3 lbs. of hops, 1_r.d._; |1½ pint of sweet milk per day, 10_r.d._ 16_sk._; 3 pints of sour milk |during the summer, 4_r.d._ 16_sk._; 9 gallons of bränvin (a kind of |whiskey), 5_r.d._ 16_sk._; lodging and fuel, 16_r.d._ 32_sk._; annual |wages in money, 44_r.d._; earnest, 3_r.d._ 16_sk._; contributions, |3_r.d._ 16_sk._; sundries, 6_r.d._ 34_sk._; total banco, 146_r.d._ |32_sk._ That is, on an average, 29_r.d._ 16_sk._ annually for every |individual; and daily, 3_sk._ 10½_rst._ | |On a gentleman’s estate in the neighbourhood of Stockholm, the |following was given last year: Annual pay in money, 33_r.d._ 16_sk._; |¼ barrel of wheat, 2_r.d._ 32_sk._; 4 barrels of rye, 24_r.d._; 2 |barrels of corn, 9_r.d._ 16_sk._; 2 ditto potatoes, 2_r.d._; 10 heads |of white cabbage, 32_sk._; ½ barrel of herrings, 4_r.d._ 32_sk._; 1 |lb. salt, 21 _sk._; 2 lbs. of meat, 2_r.d._; 1 lb. of bacon, 2_r.d._ |32_sk._; 1 lb. of hops, 16_sk._; 2 pairs of shoes, 3_r.d._ 16_sk._; |sweet milk, 10_r.d._; sundry expenses, 5_r.d._; lodging, wood, |earnest, taxes, 25_r.d._; equal to 123_r.d._ 21_sk._ Were that sum |divided among five persons, 25_r.d._ 29_sk._ would accrue to each; |and daily, 3_sk._ 3_rst._ | |The household of a cottager belonging to this estate, about 10 |English miles from Stockholm, was bound, according to a written |contract, for 10 years to perform the following labour for the estate |or landowner; namely,