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entire renewal, that the expense is greater than 

 can be met by the immediate return. Even 

 then it is capable of proof that the economy of 

 labour and of food, the better quality of the 

 manure, and the greater thrift of the stock, will, 

 as a rule, be ample compensation for the charge. 

 Additions to existing buildings for a specific 

 object, planned and executed with judgment, 

 will always be remunerative. But the more 

 common fault of putting up very costly build- 

 ings, planned with little reference to the value 

 and extent of the farm, or little practical know- 

 ledge on the part of land-agent or architect, 

 too surely ends in disappointment to both land- 

 owner and farmer. 



Labourers' cottages are reckoned the least Labourers 



dwellings, 



remunerative of all. New cottages, even though when judi- 

 ciously 

 built in blocks of two or four together, cannot placed, as 



remunera- 



at present be built by contract for less than * as any 



other out- 



150 each, if planned with due regard to com- lay of land- 

 ' 



fort and decency, and at a greater cost if the 

 expense of haulage of materials be included. 

 To repay this in twenty-five years, both prin- 

 cipal and interest, a weekly rent of 43. is 



