On Labourers' Cottages. 185 



No. 2. Composition of Tussac Grass. 





In the Recent State. 



Dried at 230°. 





Lower 

 Part. 



Upper 

 Part. 



Lower 

 Part. 



Upper 

 Part. 



Protein Compounds 



2-47 



4-79 



17-81 



19-38 



Sugar, Gum, and Extracting Matter, ex-) 



3-32 



3-64 



23-88 



8-93 



Other Nutritive Substance?, insoluble in") 

 Water, but extracted by Potash . . . j 



1-30 



3-17 



9-20 



18-63 



Woody Fibre (Ceilalose with a little Albumen) 



5-68 



11-86 



40-88 



47-94 



Saline Matter (Ash) 



1-14 



1-37 



8-23 



5-12 





86-09 



75-27 









100 



100 



100 



100 



X. — On Labourers* Cottages. From his Grace the Duke of 



Bedford. 



To the President, 



My dear Lord Chichester, — Observing in the last volume 

 of the Royal Agricultural Society's Journal that the Council is 

 directing its attention to that very important subject, the improve- 

 ment of agricultural labourers' cottages, feeling 'in common, I 

 have no doubt, with many other proprietors of estates) greatly 

 interested in it. and having bestowed upon it much and anxious 

 consideration, I am desirous of giving to others the benefit of mv 

 inquiries and experience, to enable them to follow the svstem I 

 am adopting, so far as they may think it expedient to do so : and 

 I therefore beg leave to offer to the Society copies of the plans 

 and drawings according to which I have lately erected some cot- 

 tages, and intend to erect manv more, on my Bedfordshire and 

 Devonshire estates.* 



My inquiries into the condition of the cottages on those estate • 

 led me to the conclusion, first, that, notwithstanding a verv con- 

 siderable annual expenditure upon them, many of them were so 

 deficient in requisite accommodation as to be inadequate to the 

 removal of that acknowledged obstacle to the improvement of the 

 morals and habits of agricultural labourers, which consists in the 



* It is due to his Grace to mention that the original sketches and plans have neces- 

 sarily been very greatly reduced in size for publication in this Journal, and also that 

 only a selection from them is here given. — Ph. P. 



