36 AFFORESr.VilON IN SCOTLAND. 



where crofts are small, and where onlv a few of the crofters 

 keep horses. 



Plans of Building's. 



Plans of houses with suitable byre and barns are given, with 

 a rough estimate of their cost based on practical experience in 

 the neighbourhood. It will be noted that the houses are of 

 three types — {a) Substantial single crofter houses ; (/;) similar 

 houses placed two together to save a gable ; or {c) a cheaper 

 kind of house with galvanised iron roof and no second storey. 

 The cost of these buildings is based on the assumption that 

 either the crofter does the collecting and carting of stones, 

 or that, if he has not a horse, he gives his labour free. If he 

 provides neither horse and cart nor his own labour in collecting 

 building material, in the one case ^30, in the other ^20, must 

 be added to the cost of the building. 



The rents of houses and crofts of the three classes of forest 

 workers would probably work out roughly as follows : — 



Class A. — Crofter with a horse, some stock and siteep for connnoti 

 grazing : 

 £,1^0 house, of which, say, ^,110^ is outlay 

 by the Forest Authority ; at 3 per cent, 

 interest and 2 per cent. Sinking Fund, say . ^5 10 o 

 Loan for material for barn and byre, say ^50 . 210 



A i2-acre croft with one share of common 



grazing, say .......50 



£m o 



o 



Class B.- Crofter witli no horse, two corvs, no otiier stock: 

 Double house^24o, or ^120 for each house, 

 of which, say, ^^90 is outlay by the Forest 

 Authority. At 3 per cent, and Loan for 

 material for barn and byre, say ^30; 

 total outlay by the Forest Authority, 

 -^9o + .;^3° = ^i2o at 3 per cent. . . ^3 12 o 



Rent of croft (5 acres), say . . . 2 ro o 



£^ 2 o 



' It is to the interest of the crofter to keep the capital exptMiciiture on liis 

 dwelling-house low, as iiis rent is to a great extent based on the cost to the 

 Forest Authority. The average crofter's family includes at least one member 

 with a l-:nowledge of one or other of the l)uil(ling trades. 



