The Agricultural Labourer. 783 = 517 
I also annex some plans by Mr. Hine, which were commended 
1 improved upon by the Judges at the Cardiff Meeting of the 
ciety in 1872 (Figs. 4, 5, 6). ^ 
Fig. 4. — Front Elevation. 
Mr. Hine's Cottages. 
0th these designs merit attention. It will be observed that 
ach there are three bedrooms and two sitting-rooms, and 
they contain all needful and proper accommodation for the 
-encies of life, as well as the comfort of their inmates. 
. Mr. Hine's plan the cottages are ingeniously dovetailed 
tojther, and are thus in the form of an oblong, roofed by a 
sule span. Thousands of such cottages as these may now 
be .und scattered over every part of England ; but it must be 
co);ssed that Scotland has not yet followed suit in this respect. 
Fra a dislike on the part of the labourer to live on more than 
OH'iloor, most of the cottages are in that country built on that 
pla and they are too often devoid not only of structural beauty 
oui)f decent accommodation. In many parts they present the 
apjarance of long rows of barracks, and are entirely wanting 
in at neatness and trimness which is generally the accompani- 
Kie of English homes, however poor the inmates. 
le plan and elevation (Fig. 7, p. 519) of a pair of the better 
cla; of Scotch agricultural cottages, taken from the ' Journal of 
fhe loyal Agricultural Society ' for 1871, will give a good idea 
L. XIV.— S. S. 3 G 
