On Labourers^ Cottages. 

 No. 2. Composition of Tiissac Grass. 



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Protein Compounds 



Sugar, Gum, and Extracting Matter, ex-1 

 tracted by Water j 



Other Nutritive Substances, insoluble inl! 

 Water, but extracted by Potash . . ,J j 



Woody Fibre (Cellalose with alittle Albumen)' 



Saline Matter (Ash) 



Water 



X. — On Labourers' Cottages. From his Grace the Duke of 



Bedford. 



To the President. 



My dear Lord Chichester, — Observing in the last volume 

 of the Royal Agricultural Society's Journal that the Council is 

 directing its attention to that very important subject, the improve- 

 ment of agricultural labourers' cottages, feeling (in common, I 

 have no doubt, with many other proprietors of estates) greatly 

 interested in it, and having bestowed upon it much and anxious 

 consideration, I am desirous of giving to others the benefit of my 

 inquiries and experience, to enable them to follow the system I 

 am adopting, so far as they may think it expedient to do so ; and 

 I therefore beg leave to offer to the Society copies of the plans 

 and drawings according to which I have lately erected some cot- 

 tages, and intend to erect many more, on my Bedfordshire and 

 Devonshire estates.* 



My inquiries into the condition of the cottages on those estates 

 led me to the conclusion, first, that, notwithstnnding a very con- 

 siderable annual expenditure upon them, many of them were so 

 deficient in requisite accommodation as to be inadequate to the 

 removal of that acknowledged obstacle to the improvement of the 

 morals and habits of agricultural labourers, which consists in the 



* It is due to his Grace to mention that the original sketches and plans have neces- 

 sarily been very greatly reduced in size for publication in this Journal, and also that 

 only a selection from them is here given. — Ph. P. 



