82 BRITISH RURAL LIFE AND LABOUR. 



ances in kind, unless they are given to the labourer 

 free of rent, but a free cottage is so often a part of the 

 agricultural wage arrangement, that the value of them 

 may as well be here stated. It is reckoned that in Wales 

 the range of value is from about 2, I2S. to 5 per 

 annum, that is, roughly, from one shilling to two shillings 

 a week although, for new and superior ones, the rent 

 may be as much as 6 or 7 per annum. The attached 

 gardens usually average rather less than a quarter of 

 an acre. Rents are naturally higher when cottages 

 are situated in the neighbourhood of industrial centres ; 

 but a general average rent may be struck at 4 a year. 



