The labouring work on the farm, as hay mowing, hedging, ditching, draining and the like, is performed by hired labourers upon day wages, or upon contracts by piecework.  When hired for the whole year round, from half a guinea to 12 shillings a week.  Upon the large farms there usually is one or two  such labourers, having cottages, for which their wives have to shear.  Such labourers may earn from £25 to £30 yearly, besides their harvest wages and food, and generally have extraordinary wages for mowing hay.  The hours of labour during eight months are from six in the morning till six in the evening, with one hour for breakfast and one for dinner, at nine and one respectively.  In the four winter months of November, December, January, and February, work continues during good light, when frost allows, and breakfast is taken before work begins.

Upon most farms, an upper servant, farm steward, or bailiff is employed, to whom the special orders for farm work are communicated, and who sees it executed, and takes charge of corning the horses.  To him, likewise, the charge of sowing, stacking, and thrashing, is confided.  In smaller farms he usually works a pair of horses, as one of the hinds; but on larger farms, he mostly superintends only.  He is paid like the hinds, in grain and money, with such additional wages or gains as may be agreed upon, seldom exceeding from three to five pounds above the other servants.