The inmates of the Berlin Labour House are employed in a variety of ways, but chiefly in the works connected with the irrigation farms belonging to the city. All the men of this class are lodged in barracks near the farms, so as to avoid walking the long distance to and fro every day. The remainder of the men are engaged in miscellaneous trades, such as tailoring, shoe making, clogging, wood-working, basket and brush making, lock-smithery, tinning, straw-plaiting, book binding, etc.; wood cutting is done by the less skilled men; and old men are put to light employments like coffee bean and feather sorting. Most of the women not engaged in domestic work are employed in sewing and washing for municipal institutions, like the hospitals, shelters for the homeless, the cattle market and abattoir, etc. The following table shows the manner in which the labour of the inmates was distributed amongst these employments, with the number of days worked, and the value of the work done, during the year 1908-9:-- _Paid Work._ --------------------------------+-------------+---------- | Number | Value of | of days | Work. | of Work. | +-------------+---------- (1) _Outside the Labour House._ | | | | £ s. Agricultural work on the sewage | | farms during seven months of | | summer | 128,526 | 2,570 10 Work for other municipal | | institutions | 2,884-3/4 | 100 19 Work for officers of Municipal | | Orphanage and Shelter | 90 | 3 3 | | (2) _Inside the Labour House._ | | Sewing (women) | 230 | 6 15 Washing | 7,214 | 1,854 13 Wood-cutting | 20,894 | 361 18 Other inside work | 3,714 | 129 19 Farm work | 1,382 | 48 17 Work for officers in the | | workshops | 5,418 | 135 9 Work for outside employers | 7,403 | 20 19 Oakum-picking | 1,900 | 3 11 +-------------+---------- | 179,655-3/4 | 5,236 13 --------------------------------+-------------+---------- _Unpaid Work._