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 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA AllCHlTECTURE. 1234 reasons Viiide, that the poor cannot pay them, and that the rich, unlike the benevolent Morel- care little how the poor on their estates ai-e lodged. In proof of this, we may refer to the great majority of the cottages of farm labourers in France (which Morel- Vinde informs us are iruserable ruins, not only insufficient to keep out the weather, but incommodious and unhealthy), and to the miserable dwellings of the farm servants in the best cultivated districts of Scotland and in Northiunberland. Design IX. — A double Cottage for Farm Labourers, with places between the Two Dwellings for hatching atid fattening Poidtry early in the Season. 1 365. The Objzct of this Design is, to show the application of the advice which we have already given, that the wives of cottagers in the country should be encouraged to prepare some article for the public market, as supplementary to the wages of their husband's daily labour, and to supply a motive for exertion, as well as to afford a source of income and a feeling of property, independent of manual labour. Independent cottagers may have recourse to garden produce, useful and ornamental, or the smaller kinds of manufactures, such as lace, strawwork, toys, &c. ; but the objects for the farm labourer to attend to, we think, are decidedly poultry, sucking pigs, and rabbits. There is no cottage whatever that may not have a suitable place for these purposes formed in it, or added to it, at very little expense. 1366. Accommodation. Each of these cottages contains a porcli, a, fig. 1236, with a