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conversion to objects of modern husbandry- 

 need not be very costly. It is only where they 

 have been completely neglected, and require 

 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 tive as any 



other out- 



£1^0 each, if planned with due regard to com- %ofland- 



° owners 



fort and decency, and at a greater cost if the '^''^P'^^^- 



