202 Description of Lord Farnham's Cottages. 



which a noble fortune is expended in promoting 

 objects of unquestionable utility. From the 

 individuals at Farnhatn with whom I conversed, 

 I had no doubt they considered the advantages 

 they possessed in a proper point of view, and 

 were gratefully disposed towards their noble em- 

 ployer. We visited many of the cottages, and 

 were gratified in finding so much attention to 

 good order, and, in general, to cleanliness. 

 Laborers' wages are one shilling a day in sum- 

 mer, in winter ten pence ; in addition they 

 have a cottage with a rood of garden, at a rent 

 of twenty shillings for the grazing of a cow, 

 they pay thirty shillings for half an acre of 

 meadow thirty shillings half an acre for pota- 

 toes thirty shillings. Total five pounds ten 

 shillings a year, with the privilege of digging 

 turf gratis. There are fourteen cottages to- 

 gether on one spot, beside others distributed 

 over the estate ; and more are erecting. The 

 usual wages of the country are ten pence a 

 day in summer and eight pence in \vinter ; but 

 the earnings on his Lordship's farm may be 

 calculated to average a shilling a day the year 

 round. Premiums are given to those cottagers 

 who keep their ground and garden in the best 

 state ; it was most grateful to see them all well 

 cultivated, and not only producing what was 

 most useful, but also that which was somewhat 



