Excerpt from Farm Servants and Their Employers: An Essay by a Member of the Tarland Mutual Improvement Association In addition to the abolition of Feeing Markets, and the en gagement of Servants in the manner employed with regardoto town's tradesmen, I would also suggest the introduction of the system of monthly payments, also, on the same system as that employed in some cases in towns - I may mention clerks asan example. I can with certainty aver that in towns a far better feeling exists between employer and employed than is the case in the country; and this, I consider, is owing to the fact that the engagements are made for shorter periods. At the Feeing Markets, the bargains are made in far too loosea manner to prove satisfactory to either party. Farmers have it in. Their power, since food and lodgings form a part of the Servants' salary, to infringe the bargain in a very great degree and this is very frequently done. The Farmer, at the commencement of a half-year, often seems very attentive and careful lest he should in any way offend the Servant, who could, in inclement weather, cause great loss by leaving perishable material in an unprotected state, that he might be revenged. Thus, during the former part of the half-year, the food is perfectly good and wholesome but. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.