2$2 Means of enabling a Cottager to keep a Cozo 



Where wheat can be raifed inftead of barley, the profit 

 would be ftill more confiderable. Opinions will differ much 

 regarding the value put on each article; but that is of little 

 confequence, as the total cannot be accounted too high. 



VII. Time required for cultivating the hand. 



The quantity of land intended to be cultivated, will not 

 materially interfere with the ufual labour of the cottager. 

 It will only require to \be dug once," and is then fit to be 

 cropped. It is propofed that only nine roods fhall be annu- 

 ally cultivated, (the remaining three rood? being under clover 

 and rye grafs,) and nine roods may be dug in the fpaee of 

 about £58 hours, or at the rale of 62 hours per rcod. This 

 might be done at bye hours, (more efpecially when the family 

 of the cottager thai! be fomewhat advanced, and coniequently 

 more able to furnifh affiftancel; but fuppofing that the dig- 

 ging, manuring, harvefting, &c. will require twenty entire 

 days per annum in addition to the bye hours, and allowing 

 fixty days for Sundays and holidays, there will remain 285 

 days for the ordinary hand labour of the cottager, wnich, at 

 js. 6d. per day, would amount to £.21 Js. bd.\ the earn- 

 ings of the wife and children may, at an average, be worth 

 at leaft £.4. per annum more. This is certainly a low cal- 

 culation, considering how much may be got during the hay 

 and corn harvefts ; but even at that moderate eftimate, the 

 total income of the family will be as follows : 



1. Produce of the farm - - £.21 2 o 



2. Labour of the cottager - - 21 7 6 



3. Earnings of the family - • 400 



Total £.46 9 6 



VIII. Buildings. 



It is impofiible to calculate the expenfe of building a cot- 

 tage, as fo much depends upon its fize, the place where it 

 is fituated, the materials of which it is compofed, the price 

 of labour in the country, and a variety of other circum- 

 ilances. On this important fubject, much ufeful informa- 

 tion is contained in the firft volume of the Communications 

 publifhed by the Board of Agriculture. But it is proper to 

 obferve that no expenfive additional buildings will be neceffary 

 in confequence of the propofed fyftem. A fhed or hovel for 

 the cow cannot occafion any very heavy charge, and a fmall 



pi nriiik per day, worth id. per quart, equal to $ s. bd. a week, or £.9 zs. 

 per annum, letting the profit of the calf againft the lofs fuftained when 

 the cow is dry ; but it is better to be rather under than over the mark. 



barn,. 



