ON FARM-BUILDINGS AND LABOURERS' COTTAGES. 247 



same time to make them substantial and neat, without elaborate orna- 

 mentation, and all this at the least possible cost. 



Cottage-building, as a rule, on country estates does not pay, at least 

 not directly. They usually give a very low percentage on the outlay, 

 and on the value of the land they occupy ; but they pay the estate or 

 farm with which they are connected indirectly, in supplying a class of 

 steady workmen who take an interest in the estate or farm, and are 

 always at hand when required. 





