According to the league statistics the average monthly wages of blowers were only $115. Our averages exceed this sum, because the pay of supernumeraries are not included; nor has allowance been made in these reports for individual lost time, except where expressly stated. This lost time averages about five per cent. Our monthly wages are for a full month's work. Glass factories are idle during July and August; but some of the hands work all the year, viz., mould makers, pot makers, mill-house men, blacksmiths, masons, laborers, &c. Blowers, and those whose work depends on them only, are engaged forty-three weeks of the year.

No. 2. This factory was in operation for 91⁄2 months. See remarks under No. 1.