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labourers' dwellings are as indispensable as the 

 stables and barns, and no arable farm can be 

 said to be complete which has not the command 

 of an adequate number of cottages for the work- 

 people. These, with the farm and all other 

 necessary buildings, should be let to the farmer 

 at a rent which should include a fair return on 

 the landlord's capital, and the farmer and the 

 labourer should be left to deal with each other 

 on the basis of adequate remuneration for use- 

 ful service, regulated by the ultimate rule of 

 demand and supply. On this footing the return 

 on labourers' cottages will become as remune- 

 rative as that of any other outlay of landowners' 

 capital, because it will be controlled by the real 

 necessity and requirements of the farm. 



This will apply chiefly in cases where new Better 



cottages 



cottages are attached to farms, and fresh outlay wanted 



rather than 



for that object is to be made. But, in the vast ^^o^'^ ^^ 



•• them. 



majority of cases, labourers' cottages already 

 exist in sufficient numbers. Better cottages are 

 required in many parts of the country, rather 

 than more of them. It has been well ascer- 

 tained that during the last thirty years the 



